Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of schools that have not resumed delivery of a full extra-curricular offering compared to before the covid-19 outbreak.

It is up to schools to decide what extra-curricular activities to offer to pupils. This can change and the department does not ask them to provide regular data.

However, the department included questions in both the School Snapshot Panel Survey and the Pupil and Parent Panel Surveys to understand provision and take up of extra-curricular activity, including the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The information collected does not indicate how many schools have returned to the same level of provision as before the Covid-19 pandemic. However, parents and pupils have reported that the uptake of extra-curricular activities increased in the 2021/22 academic year, compared to 2020/21, as schools looked to rebuild their offer to pupils.

The data can be found at:

• School Snapshot Panel Surveys: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-snapshot-panel-covid-19.
• Parent, Pupil and Learner Panels: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parent-pupil-and-learner-panel-omnibus-surveys-for-2021-to-2022.
• School and College Panel Oct 21: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1064835/School_and_College_Panel_Oct_21_Report_V10.pdf.

We expect to publish further survey results in due course.