Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of teachers in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. As of November 2010, when the School Workforce Census began, there were 779 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in the 50 out of 51 state-funded schools that returned data in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency. In November 2023, there were 848 FTE teachers in South Holland and The Deepings constituency, when all 50 schools returned data.

The ratio of pupils to teachers (qualified and unqualified) has remained broadly stable in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency, at 18.7 in 2010 and in 2023 and ranging between 17.5 and 19.9 in the years in between.

The number of staff reported by state-funded schools in November 2023, including their constituency, is available in the school level summary file in the ‘Additional supporting files’ section of the statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

The ratio of pupils to teachers and to adults by parliamentary constituency is published here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/997087c9-5b1c-4635-b412-83b4bb0130a6.