The below table sets out total Departmental spend for teacher recruitment advertising campaigns for the past five financial years.<\/p>
<\/p>
<\/p><\/td> | Get Into Teaching Advertising: Financial Year Spend<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2022/23<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £13,157,484.38<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2021/22<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £12,255,612.85<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2020/21<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £11,848,725.34<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2019/20<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £12,776,070.54<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018/19<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £12,773,706.55<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The objectives of the teaching advertising campaign are to raise the status of teaching and contribute to overall Initial Teacher Training (ITT) numbers. Due to the long candidate journey from initial consideration through to applying for, and starting ITT, several methods are used to assess campaign impact. They include regular brand tracking studies and other market research such as:<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Key performance indicators for the teaching recruitment campaign are consideration of teaching as a career amongst the Department\u2019s target audience and the number of new, unique sign-ups to the Get Into Teaching service. The campaign also measures the proportion of sign-ups attributed to the advertising campaign, through econometric modelling and the proportion of ITT applicants who have interacted with the Get Into Teaching service.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) likelihood of flight delays for over two hours at Heathrow Airport in December 2023 and (b) impact of flights delays on trends in the level of night flights to and from that airport; and whether he plans to take steps to ensure that that airport does not exceed its night flight restrictions.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 3 of Stakeholder Engagement Appendix G, Heathrow's Airspace Modernisation (FASI South) Stage 2 Gateway submission, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential ecological impact of diverting flight paths over Richmond Park.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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