Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency have left the profession in the last (a) one, (b) two and (c) five years.

As at November 2022, the latest data available, record numbers of teachers entered the profession now totalling 468,400 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) teachers, of which 63,200 were in the North West and 9,800 were in Lancashire. Since 2010, England has seen over 27,000 more teachers in our schools.

Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers leaving service nationally, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

It is not possible to provide figures by parliamentary constituency. Over this period there has been a net increase in FTE teachers in both Lancashire Local Authority (from 9,179 to 9,788) and in the North West (from 60,926 to 63,247).