Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies there are in each (a) phase and (b) region.

In November 2015, there were 350 full-time teacher vacancies in primary schools, 310 full-time teacher vacancies in secondary schools and 70 full-time teacher vacancies in special schools and pupil referral units – this is the latest information available and covers state funded schools in England.

Table 14 of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2015’ statistical release contains the detailed breakdown and time series of the vacancy data collected as part of the annual School Workforce Census. The statistical release is available at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2015

The number of full-time teacher vacancies in each region is in the following table. The data is published within the additional tables at the above link.