Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's target number for new entrants to early years initial teacher training programme has been for each academic year since that programme was established; and what that target is for each of the next three years.

The Department has never used a workforce supply model for early years initial teacher training, and as a consequence did not define a need for new entrants in 2016/17. We have an ambition to grow the number of graduates who are entering the early years teaching profession, and make places available to meet the demand from the market.