Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were eligible for pupil premium according to the schools census conducted in January 2021.
The January 2021 census will be used to determine pupil premium eligibility for alternative provision and pupil referral units for the financial year 2021-22. Pupil premium eligibility for mainstream and special schools will be based on the October 2020 census.
We will confirm pupil premium allocations in June 2021, once pupil number data from the January 2021 census has been validated.
The department publishes information on pupil premium allocations and the number of pupils eligible annually. The most recent publicly available figures can be found via this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021.