{"value":{"id":1817459,"askingMemberId":5072,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-06-27T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-07-02T00:00:00","uin":"63472","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress she has made in recruiting 6500 new teachers.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4125,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-07-24T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The department is committed to recruiting an additional 6,500 new expert teachers across secondary and special schools, and in our colleges, over the course of this Parliament.</p><p>We have made significant progress on this pledge. The workforce has grown by 2,346 full time employed staff in secondary and special schools between 2023/24 and 2024/25 and our future school teacher pipeline is also growing. As of June 2025, there are 12% more trainees who have accepted offers to train as secondary teachers, and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, acceptances are up 25% compared to last year.</p><p>The recent spending review will further support delivery of this key pledge, providing an above-inflation increase to our core schools budget of £4.2 billion additional funding by 2028/29, and a substantial investment in skills, with over £1 billion of additional funding by 2028/29.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Teachers: Recruitment","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1817459","method":"GET"}]}