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.

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.