Religion: Education
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of the proportion of unqualified teaching hours in Religious Education at Key Stage 4 relative to History and Geography.
Answered by Department for Education
Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
This publication includes information on the proportion of timetabled hours delivered by specialist teachers for each subject and key stage for secondary schools at national level. The latest available figures, for November 2025, for religious education, history and geography at key stage 4 are available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/3ba6e5c3-e5e7-43f3-2df3-08df07a6df71.
Timetabled teaching is reported for a typical week in November, as determined by the school. It does not cover an entire year of teaching. If there are variations in timetabling across the year, this is not covered in the data available to the department.
Data on the subject taught and specialist teaching are only collected from secondary schools that use electronic timetabling software that can produce data in the format required. Data is then weighted to provide national totals. Breakdowns by local authority are therefore not available.
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