Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16156 on Turing Scheme: Free School Meals, how many and what proportion of students with Turing grants are from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Through the Turing Scheme, in the 2024/25 academic year, education providers and other eligible organisations from across the UK and British Overseas Territories have been allocated over £105 million to send their students on more than 43,000 study and work placements across the globe. Around 23,000 (53%) of these opportunities will be for participants from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Information on the number and proportion of disadvantaged students in previous years of the Turing Scheme is available at the following links:

• 2021/22 Academic Year: https://www.turing-scheme.org.uk/funding-opportunities/funding-results-2021-to-2022/.
• 2022/23 Academic Year: https://www.turing-scheme.org.uk/funding-opportunities/funding-results-2022-23/.
• 2023/24 Academic Year: https://www.turing-scheme.org.uk/funding-opportunities/funding-results-2023-to-2024/.

For the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years, the figures are subject to change following quality assurance of providers’ final reports of the placements that took place. This data will be published in due course.