Dan Jarvis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of history lessons were taught by non-subject specialists in each of the last five years.

Mr David Laws

Information on the percentage of history lessons taught to pupils in years 7 to 13 by non-subject specialists is publicly-available online, and published in the Main Tables at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2010-provisional (Table 14)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2011 (Table 14)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2012 (Table 14)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013 (Table 13)

Data for 2009 is not available.

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