Teacher Training

Mr. Willetts
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students successfully completed post graduate teacher training qualifications in each year since 1997, broken down by sex.

Jim Knight
The following table provides data on students on post graduate teacher training programmes gaining qualified teacher status (QTS) by gender in academic years 1998/99 to 2004/05, the latest year for which data are available. Data for 1997/98 are not available in the format requested.

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|                                                                                                                                                                                                              |1998/99|1999/2000|2000/01|2001/02|2002/03|2003/04|2004/05|
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|Female                                                                                                                                                                                                        |10,890 |10,630   |11,860 |12,400 |13,930 |15,430 |15,710 |
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|Male                                                                                                                                                                                                          |4,280  |4,210    |4,290  |4,540  |5,250  |6,030  |6,070  |
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|Total                                                                                                                                                                                                         |15,160 |14,850   |16,150 |16,940 |19,180 |21,460 |21,780 |
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|Notes:1. Includes those trained through SCITTs, but excludes completers through employment based routes.2. Figures are individually rounded to the nearest 10 and may not sum.Source:IDA performance profiles.|       |         |       |       |       |       |       |
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Ben Chapman
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information on the number of teachers teaching by subject he has collected since25 October 2006.

Jim Knight
No such information has been collected.