Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools are participating in the National Tutoring Programme (a) in total, (b) by constituency and (c) by local authority.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) provides additional, targeted support to disadvantaged pupils and is being delivered for the Department by the Education Endowment Foundation and Teach First.
There are currently 4,227 schools enrolled with Tuition Partners. The Department does not hold the requested information at constituency or local authority level. We are working to ensure that there is a high level of awareness amongst schools of the support available, particularly in areas with high numbers of disadvantaged pupils. In academic year 2020-21, we expect that 250,000 children will be tutored by NTP Tuition Partners.
There is still availability for schools to access high-quality tuition, subsidised at 75% by the Department, through the Tuition Partners. We would encourage all schools to review the support available to them from Tuition Partners to provide additional, targeted support for disadvantaged pupils. This will help ensure that the NTP can support as many pupils as possible. Further information and sign-up details are here: https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/ntp-tuition-partners.
In February 2021, we launched a tendering process to secure a NTP delivery partner to provide a further year of NTP support. Further details will be available in due course but we expect to support approximately 750,000 pupils through the NTP in academic year 2021-22.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on contracted consultants in each year since 2015.
Answered by Nick Gibb
A summary of DfE Consolidated Group consultancy expenditure for each year can be found in the relevant Annual Report and Accounts, published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports.
Consultants are hired to work on projects in a number of specific situations:
This expertise was mainly used to support change programmes across the Group and specialist research contracted out to third parties.
The expenditure for each year is as follows:
Financial Year | £m |
2019-20 | 12.7 |
2018-19 | 13.1 |
2017-18 | 14.6 |
2016-17 | 12.1 |
2015-16 | 8.6 |
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on consultants for (a) marketing, (b) focus group, (c) polling and (d) other promotional activity relating to his Department's responsibilities in each year since 2015.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data on consultancy spend against the categories a) marketing, (b) focus group, (c) polling and (d) other promotional activity is not readily available and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
A transactional breakdown of spending over £25,000 is published at the links below. The reports can be filtered by Consultancy under ‘Expense Type’.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2020 to 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2020-to-2021.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2019 to 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2019-to-2020.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2018 to 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2018-to-2019.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2017 to 2018: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2017-to-2018.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2016 to 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2016-to-2017.
Spend reporting for Financial Year 2015 to 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2015-to-2016.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils who will be taught under the National Tutoring Programme; and if he will publish that data by (a) constituency and (b) local authority.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) provides additional, targeted support to disadvantaged pupils by providing schools with access to high quality, subsidised tuition from a selection of approved Tuition Partners.
In the academic year 2020/21, we expect that 250,000 pupils will be provided with tuition from NTP Tuition Partners. We are working to ensure that there is a high level of awareness amongst schools of the support available, particularly in areas with high numbers of disadvantaged pupils. The NTP is led by demand from schools; we do not estimate the number of pupils that will be taught under NTP at constituency and local authority level.
In February 2021, we launched a tendering process to secure a NTP delivery partner to provide a further year of NTP support, which we expect to support approximately 750,000 pupils through the NTP in academic year 2021/22.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptop devices and (b) internet dongles were distributed to schools prior to 8 March 2021 as part of the Government's policies to support remote learning during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Nick Gibb
As of Monday 8 March 2021, over 1.2 million laptops and tablets have been delivered to schools, academy trusts, local authorities and further education colleges. More information can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/laptops-and-tablets-data.
The Department publishes this data every week during term time.