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1662102

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the proportion of male primary school teachers.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mark Logan
uin	200558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department wants to ensure that teaching is an attractive career choice for people from all backgrounds. This includes men looking to work in primary schools.</p><p>Alongside monitoring overall numbers of male teachers in the profession, our in-house teacher recruitment services, such as the Apply for Teaching Training service, generate real time data and insights into recruitment of male primary initial teacher training (ITT) candidates, along with the recruitment practices of schools and universities that offer ITT.</p><p>Whilst men make up a smaller proportion of the teaching workforce than women, since 2010 there has been an increase of over 6,500 male teachers in state funded nursery and primary schools, rising from 28,180 in 2010/11 to 34,818 in 2022/23. ​</p><p>​​Recruitment campaigns are targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates, and potential career changers, regardless of gender. The Department takes every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials used. The Department is also working with our Teacher Vacancy Service to ensure online case studies encourage more male primary teachers into the profession, through sharing positive and encouraging stories from teachers.</p><p>The Department wants teaching to be an attractive and competitive profession. From September 2023, starting salaries will raise to at least £30,000 in all areas of the country. In fulfilling this manifesto commitment, the Department is ensuring that all teachers launch their career on a competitive starting salary.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/10/2023 17:02:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4815 label Biography information for Mark Logan

1640481

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the recruitment of male primary school teachers.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	186829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>​​The Department wants to attract and retain diverse, talented teachers from all backgrounds, and this includes recruiting male teachers. It is important that schools and their leadership teams reflect their communities and their pupils. The Department knows that good teachers, regardless of gender or background, provide positive role models and shape the lives of young people.</p><p>​The gender of new entrants to postgraduate teacher training has remained broadly similar since 2015/16, with 28% being male in 2022/23. 16% of primary postgraduate trainees were male compared to 39% of secondary postgraduate trainees in 2022/23.</p><p>​More women apply to the primary phase than men, which is reflected in the higher proportion of female teachers working in primary schools. Whilst it remains true that men make up a smaller proportion of the teaching workforce, the number of male teachers in primary schools has gradually increased since 2010. Since 2010, there has been an increase of over 7,000 male teachers in state funded nursery and primary schools, from 28,180 in 2010/11 to 35,202 in 2021/22.</p><p>As of November 2021, in state funded nursery and primary schools, 26% of headteachers were male, compared with 14% of all nursery and primary teachers.</p><p>The Department is using the data gathered through its new in-house teacher recruitment services, such as the new Apply for Teaching Training service. These services are generating new real-time data and insight into recruitment of male primary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) candidates and the recruitment practices of schools and universities that offer ITT.</p><p>​The Department’s recruitment campaigns are targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates, and potential career changers, regardless of gender. The Department makes every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials used. The Department continues to develop its work to ensure that diversity and inclusion is central to the work delivered.</p><p>The Department is working with its Teacher Vacancy Service to ensure online case studies encourage more male primary teachers into the profession, through sharing positive and encouraging stories from teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/06/2023 12:56:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1483426

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his latest estimate is of the number of primary schools that have a dedicated teacher for (a) music, (b) arts, (c) drama and (d) PE.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	25838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The department does not collect primary school curriculum data in the annual school workforce census. The school workforce census collects information on teaching in a sample of secondary schools and this information is published in our national statistics, the latest of which refers to the November 2021 census and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>Music, arts, drama, and physical education (PE) are vital aspects of primary school. The department supports this via the curriculum first and foremost, where music, arts, drama, and PE are part of the national curriculum, but we also want pupils to have the opportunity to engage in enrichment and physical activity, including sport. These are important for academic progress, for health and wellbeing, and for increasing life chances and future opportunities.</p><p>On 25 June 2022, the government published its refreshed national plan for music education, setting clear expectations for schools and announcing £25 million of new capital funding for musical instruments and equipment and £79 million per year until 2025 for the music hubs programme. The government also announced opportunities for pupils to stay active, continuing the £320 million PE and sport premium, as well as the School Games programme for the 2022/23 academic year. The update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan will be published shortly and, in 2023, the government will be publishing a cultural education plan.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 30/06/2022 12:03:39 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1366950

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) steps his Department is taking and (b) incentives his Department is offering to help increase the proportion of male teachers in primary education.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	71313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>Schools should reflect society and the communities they serve, and it is important to attract and retain high-skilled, talented men into teaching.</p><p>The department does this through effective pay structures and by ensuring teaching remains a financially rewarding career. We remain committed to increasing teacher starting salaries to £30,000 to make teaching an attractive graduate option. While the pay restraint in academic year 2021/22 means we are now delivering this commitment to a revised timescale, the 5.5% uplift to starting pay in September 2020 has already made a substantial difference to the competitiveness of the early career pay offer.</p><p>The department’s ‘Teaching – Every Lesson Shapes A Life’ recruitment campaign is targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates and potential career changers regardless of gender, and we take every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials we use.</p><p>In October, Apply for Teacher Training (Apply), our new application service for initial teacher training (ITT) in England, was rolled out nationally. Apply has been designed to be user-friendly and has been extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants, including men, to ensure it helps remove barriers to great teachers applying for ITT courses. Apply will also allow us to collect more data, giving us greater insight into candidate behaviour and the behaviour of providers of teacher training so that the department can identify barriers and work closely with ITT providers to explore, design and test new interventions to recruit more candidates from under-represented backgrounds into the sector.</p><p>Alongside a focus on recruitment, it is important we retain male teachers. This will be supported by our work to ensure that all new entrants to teacher training have the best possible start to the early stage of their career, regardless of gender.</p><p>World-class programmes developed by the Department for Education to support the school workforce, including our Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms for those at the beginning of careers and National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) to develop our best teaching and leadership talent, is the best training for everyone whatever their background. The ECF reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the start of their careers. NPQs are now freely available to all teachers in state-funded schools, as well as state-funded 16-19 organisations.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 17/11/2021 13:42:36 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1308631

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of men in primary teaching.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	180590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government aims to attract and retain highly skilled and talented individuals, including men, through effective pay structures, financial incentives, and by ensuring that teaching remains a sustainable and rewarding career.</p><p>The teacher pay increases in recent years are making a substantial difference to the competitiveness of the early career pay offer. This academic year, starting salaries have already increased by 5.5%, with the majority of other teachers receiving 2.75%. The Department is also committed to increasing starting salaries nationally to £30,000.</p><p>Alongside this, the Department is introducing a new application service for teacher training, which has been designed and extensively tested with a diverse range of potential applicants, to ensure it helps remove barriers to potentially great teachers, including men, applying for initial teacher training (ITT) courses.</p><p>The Department’s ‘Every Lesson Shapes A Life’ recruitment campaign is targeted at audiences of students, recent graduates, and potential career changers inclusive of all genders, and we take every effort to ensure that our advertising is fully reflective of this across the full range of marketing materials we use.</p><p>As well as recruiting new teachers, it is important the Department retains male teachers in primary schools. To do this, we are working to make sure that all new entrants to teacher training have the best possible start to the early stage of their career.</p><p>This is why, from September 2020 onwards, new trainee teachers will be entitled to at least three years of evidence-based professional development and support, starting with ITT, based on the new ITT Core Content Framework (2019). The new ITT Core Content Framework sets out a core minimum entitlement for all trainees describing the fundamental knowledge and skills that all new entrants to the profession need to effectively teach and support all children.</p><p>Following on from their training, from this September all new teachers will be entitled to two years of funded high-quality professional development including the support of a dedicated mentor, through the Early Career Framework reforms. Schools will receive additional funding so new teachers can spend time away from the classroom for this extra training and mentoring. Together, these reforms will ensure that all new teachers will develop the skills, expertise and confidence they need to thrive in the classroom.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/04/2021 16:26:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1244642

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) male and (b) female teachers there were in state primary schools in each of the last five years in (i) England, (ii) Greater London and (iii) Bexley.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	105292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>Information on the number of teachers by gender in state funded primary and secondary schools for both National and Greater London regions can be viewed at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8017d78a-c356-4a23-9f5d-84837bae3930" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8017d78a-c356-4a23-9f5d-84837bae3930</a>.</p><p>Information on the number of teachers by gender in all state funded schools in the Bexley local authority is available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/babdd0b6-86b0-4a7c-be31-612a913d2ea1" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/babdd0b6-86b0-4a7c-be31-612a913d2ea1</a>.</p><p>The breakdown by school phase is not explicitly summarised in the publication. It can, however, be calculated from the individual school records which are published as part of the Schools Workforce Statistics Collection. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 105293 question first answered 27/10/2020 15:01:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

731642

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers there were in state primary schools in England in each year from 2010-11 to the most recent year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The following table provides the full time equivalent number of teachers in state funded nursery and primary schools in England, in November 2010 to 2016.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>State Funded Nursery and Primary Schools[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>196,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>199,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>204,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>209,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>215,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>220,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2016</p></td><td><p>222,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: School Workforce Census</em></p><p>These figures are derived from the November School Workforce Census and are published in table 1 of the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2016’, available at the following web link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016</a></p><p>[1] Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/06/2017 16:32:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

713039

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will work with the Department for Education to draw up and enact an action plan to recruit and retain more male teachers in primary schools.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	68626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>We value diversity in the workforce but want the most talented people in the classroom, regardless of their gender. Evidence shows that the quality of teaching is the single most important factor in determining how well pupils achieve.</p><p>Recent figures show that between 2011/12 and 2015/16 the number of male primary teachers (FTE) has increased from 28,000 to 33,400. As a percentage, this has increased from 14.1% in 2011 to 15.3% in 2015.</p><p>The proportion of male entrants to primary postgraduate initial teacher training has remained broadly stable since 2010/11.</p><p>There is more to do, and we have a range of measures in place to attract and retain excellent teachers, no matter what their gender, including:</p><ul><li><p>Offering a range of bursaries and scholarships worth up to £30,000 tax free to trainees in 2016/17.</p></li><li><p>Introducing pay flexibilities and putting schools in charge of teacher training through School Direct.</p></li><li><p>Expanding Teach First into every region of the country.</p></li><li><p>Supporting schools to retain good teachers by making significant policy interventions in areas such as improving pupil behaviour and tackling unnecessary workload for teachers.</p><p>It is the responsibility of schools and employers to comply with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. Guidance for schools on the Act is available online.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/03/2017 13:42:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

650293

registered interest
date	02/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary school teachers are (a) male and (b) female.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	56026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The proportion of male full-time equivalent teachers in service in state funded primary schools (including nursery) in England, November 2015 is 15%. The proportion of females is 85%.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/12/2016 15:48:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

391396

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-maintained primary schools in England have no male teachers on their permanent staff.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	7906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>In November 2014, there were 3,516 state funded primary schools in England that reported having no male teachers in their service.[1]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Source: School Workforce Census 2014: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/09/2015 14:48:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell