Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of members of the public directly contacting the Teaching Regulation Agency.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) analyse and report on referral numbers within their Annual Report and Accounts published on GOV.UK. Referrals to TRA have increased from 1038 in 2022/23 to 1684 in 2023/24, and that increase has been driven by a rise in the number of referrals made by members of the public since the launch of the online referral system in March 2023.