Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which external agencies his Department used to promote the Teach Now scheme in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 including (i) advertising companies, (ii) public relations companies and (iii) digital media companies; and how much each such agency was paid in each of those years.

The Department did not use any external advertising, public relations or digital media companies to promote the Now Teach programme in 2015-16 or 2016-17.