Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) teacher and (b) teaching assistant positions are vacant in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) England.

Information on the state funded school workforce in England, including the number and rate of teacher vacancies by school each November, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. Data for November 2022 will be published in summer 2023.

In November 2021, there were three teacher vacancies in St Helens, 29 in Merseyside and 1,564 in England.

Information on teaching assistant vacancies is not collected centrally.