Meeting of the Parliament 24 June 2026 [Draft]
I will answer the question in two parts. The Government has worked hard to create and foster conditions to make teaching the attractive and exciting career proposition that we all know it can be. We have done that not least by ensuring that our teachers are the best paid across the United Kingdom but by ensuring the continuance of the best pupil teacher ratio across the UK—good classroom settings in which to teach.
Secondly, we are adopting the new policy of the three-year job guarantee for newly qualified teachers, directly in response to having heard concerns—exactly like those that Mr Harley has put on the record—from newly qualified teachers who are looking for a degree of permanence. We will be developing that policy, and I will be pleased to update the Parliament with more detail in due course.