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Source: School Census

Elizabeth Truss: In 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 up to 16 July, the Department for Education introduced 289 and revoked 146 statutory instruments (SIs). The Department has regulated within the ‘One in, One out’ (from 1 January 2011) and ‘One In, Two Out’ (from 1 January 2013) frameworks for those regulations affecting the business sector, such as private firms and civil society organisations. These rules only apply to those regulations affecting the business sector.

Details of these regulations are set out in a supplementary table that has been placed in the House Library.

Mr Laws: Ofsted inspectors reach judgements on the quality of teaching throughout a school, rather than on the quality of teaching by individual teachers.

Information is not collected centrally about the professional development of individual teachers. We have introduced streamlined arrangements to give schools more freedom to manage teacher performance to suit their own circumstances. Teachers’ line managers are now free to decide how much observation over the course of the year is necessary for them to form an accurate assessment of teachers’ performance, including underperformance, so that they can take appropriate action.

Mr Laws: High-quality professional development is important to support and enable all teachers, irrespective of their age, to improve their practice.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 May 2013 to my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie), Official Report, column 127W.

Mr Laws: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 16 July 2013, Official Report, column 616W. The latest data, for 2012, were published on 17 July. These are included in the following table: