Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average cost of (a) employing a (i) teacher and (ii) a member of support staff and (b) energy and (c) other non-staff expenditure per pupil in the (A) 2023-24 and (B) 2024-25 and (C) 2025-26 and (D) 2026-27 financial year.

The department publishes the ‘Schools’ costs: technical note’ (SCTN), which includes data on school workforce costs and non-staff expenditure, including energy. This year’s SCTN publication and historical publications are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-costs-technical-note.