PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Teachers: Training (3 November 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were distributed in the initial allocations for initial teacher training trainees to School Direct and HE providers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16; and what the target number of trainees estimated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the National College for School Leadership and the Teaching Agency was in each of those years.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

The data for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations for School Direct and HE providers over the last 5 years is shown in the table below:

	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
HE providers	28,669	28,841	26,790	23,095	22,224
School Direct	0	772	9,586	15,254	17,609

Answered by:
Mr David Laws (Liberal Democrat)
10 November 2014