Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2015 to Question 13838, how many schools with whom her Department is discussing its STEM international recruitment programme have expressed an interest in recruiting teachers through that programme.

The Department for Education discusses international recruitment with a number of schools and does not keep a list of the schools with which such discussions take place.

The department does not monitor individual schools’ recruitment activities. This is a matter for schools.