{"value":{"id":1850482,"askingMemberId":4988,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-11-10T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-11-24T00:00:00","uin":"HL11740","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current level of total teacher vacancies.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":269,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-11-24T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Data on the number of teacher vacancies is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication. Figures for November 2024, which are the latest available, have been available since 5 June 2025.</p><p>Teacher vacancies (full and part-time) decreased to 2,200 in November 2024, having more than doubled in the previous three years, from 1,100 in November 2020 to a peak of 2,800 in November 2023. The vacancy rate, which takes into account changes in the teaching population, also decreased to 5 per 1,000 teachers in service, from 6 per 1,000 teachers in 2023.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Teachers: Vacancies","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1850482","method":"GET"}]}