Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to reopen applications for tutoring organisations to become approved tuition partners as part of the national tutoring programme, run by the Education Endowment Foundation.

The Department is very pleased that the National Tutoring Programme can be extended for another year, to the 2021/2022 academic year. Earlier this month, we held a market warming event for the second phase of the programme and we hope to be in a position where we can publicly confirm the procurement arrangements for the second phase soon.