Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many teachers have left the profession within five years of qualifying in each year since 2009.

Of the full and part-time teachers who gained qualified teacher status in 2009 (and were in service by March 2010), 72% were still in service in a state funded school in England five years after qualification. The rate of retention five years after qualification has remained broadly stable since 1996.