Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the degree to which trainee teacher recruitment has met her Department's targets in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

The information is available in Table 1b of the Main tables:SFR46/2015 spreadsheet found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016

Column D of this table shows the total percentage contribution of new entrants to the yearly trainee teacher recruitment target for the last six years.