Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students with qualified teacher status (a) have and (b) have not secured an early career teaching post after completing training in the last 12 months.

​​In the 2023/24 academic year, 25,845 trainees achieved qualified teacher status. The department provisionally estimates that 18,910 of these were teaching in a state-funded school in England within 16 months of the end of the 2023/24 academic year and 6,935 trainees were not. These numbers include both postgraduate and undergraduate trainees. Some trainees will also have entered the education sector through a different type of academic institution, such as an independent school or further education college.

​This information is available in the initial teacher training performance profiles publication, which is available here: ​https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2023-to-2024.

​This publication provides information about the outcomes for teacher trainees in England in the 2023/24 academic year. Outcomes for teacher trainees for the 2024/25 academic year will be published in July 2026.