Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the change in the number of teachers that will be required in each subject by 2020 as a result of making the Ebacc compulsory.

Each time a teaching or curriculum-related policy change is announced, the Department for Education considers the resulting change in teacher demand.

The department does this, in part, by adding policy assumptions into the Teacher Supply Model (TSM), which informs the initial teacher training targets each year. We will factor the compulsory Ebacc commitment into future TSMs as required, and publish on GOV.UK in line with our usual approach to forecasting teacher supply requirements.

More details as to how the policy assumption process is managed within the TSM itself, along with some previous examples, can be found in both the 2015/16 TSM and the accompanying user guide, which are published online at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model