Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers left Initial Teacher Training before earning their Newly Qualified Teacher status in each of the last five years.

Data on new entrants starting initial teacher training (ITT) is published annually in the ITT Census and the latest publication is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census.

Data on the outcomes of final year trainees is published annually in the ITT Performance Profiles publication. The latest publication is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2019-to-2020.

These datasets are not directly comparable where they cover different cohorts of trainees.