Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the ongoing annual additional cost of state school teachers leaving the profession within five years of starting in 2010.

There are more than 456,000 teachers in state-funded schools throughout England – up more than 15,000 since 2010. The retention rate for new teachers is around 90% and of those that started in 2010, 70% are still in the classroom.

The Department’s Teacher Supply Model estimates the number of new teachers we need to train each year. Based on the National Audit Office Report on “Training new teachers”, it cost £700 million to train 33,200 trainees in 2013/14. This report is attached.