There is a clear need for every Government to keep a track on how well its policy changes are impacting society, so that its actions are made accountable and lessons can be learned. Many people are of the view that teachers need to be trained and educated in order to ensure that students learn well from the significant sums of money that are spent in Schools. There will be some people who believe that untrained teachers can also offer a meaningful way of introducing creative solutions into Schools. No doubt this is why Michael Gove introduced the idea of Schools being entitled to employ teachers who do not have educational qualifications. At the beginning of the coalition Government in 2010 the number of schools outside of local education authorities was relatively small, but now that has changed out of all proportion and there are numerous types of schools that are outside of LEAs. If the unqualified teachers had been introduced prior to 2010 it would have been very reasonable for LEAs to be questioned about such a matter. However now we are facing a very different set of arrangements and as School Academies and Free Schools are accountable directly to the Government it seems perfectly reasonable to expect matters such as data on teachers to be gathered and analysed by the Government Department for Education. After all it is the DfE that funds these schools and makes policy decisions such as the need for teachers to be qualified. Nick Gibb is clearly mistaken to argue that the Department is not supposed to be accountable for such matters.