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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Thirty-eighth report from Session 2024-26

Published 15 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee Increasing teacher numbers: Secondary and further education Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to 38th Report - Increasing teacher numbers: Secondary and further education.

This is the government's response, published 15 October 2025.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government states that it agrees with each of the Committee's recommendations on increasing secondary and further education teacher numbers, and gives target implementation dates between November 2025 and December 2026.

  • On the pledge of 6,500 additional teachers, the department "will set out more detail" in a published delivery plan covering the definition of the pledge, tracking of progress, progress to date and the levers it will use, including recruitment and retention.
  • On a whole-system strategy, it points to upcoming publications (the Schools White Paper, the 6,500 delivery plan and the post-16 education and skills strategy) and says it is "embedding value for money analysis" into major initiatives.
  • On further education, it commits to update the Committee "every 6 months" on progress in recruiting and retaining FE teachers, with a first step being the 6,500 delivery plan.
  • On behaviour hubs, it says "further rollout and funding are subject to spending review outcomes and evaluation findings".

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