Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's Initial teacher training (ITT) market review, published on 5 July 2021, how many providers responding to that consultation did not support the proposed reforms.

The majority of the 823 respondents did not express universal opposition to, or universal support for the proposals, but indicated positive views towards some of the recommendations, while raising points about the potential impact of others.

The government response to the consultation is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/initial-teacher-training-itt-market-review. The response includes detailed analysis of the consultation responses. This analysis describes the main themes found across the responses to each question of the consultation and sets out how the feedback informed the government’s response to the recommendations from the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) market review.