Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of teachers in the London Borough of Lewisham have still been in teaching after (a) three, (b) four and (c) five years in each year since 2010.

Information on the retention of teachers in all state funded schools in England for the years up to November 2017 is available in Table 8 of the publication, ‘School Workforce in England’, November 2017 available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.

This publication also shows the number of teachers working in each local authority of England. This is available in the excel link labelled regional, local authority and school level information.

There are differences on teacher recruitment and retention at a sub-national level and the Department has been working to understand this better. Information at local authority or regional level comparable to the national figures for 2016 and 2017 is not available. Information is available, however, on the number of qualified teachers entering and leaving the profession by region for the years 2010 to 2015. It is published as part of the statistical release, ‘Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015’. Tables 2.1a (secondary) and 2.1b (primary) show the wastage rates, by region in state funded schools for the years 2011 to 2015. Information for entrants is shown in Table 2.3a (secondary) and Table 2.3b (primary) of this publication. Comparable information at local authority level is not available.

This publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.