Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of Ofsted's rating on the ability of a school to recruit teaching staff.

The Department collects and publishes school vacancy data annually via the School Workforce Census[1]. The Department has published analysis linking Ofsted ratings to the mobility and retention of teachers; this showed that of teachers that had moved between schools, 74% moved to schools with the same or better Ofsted rating compared with their previous school. The full analysis is published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615729/SFR33_2017_Text.pdf.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.