Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department spent on initial teacher training for (a) bursaries and (b) scholarships for each subject in each of the last three years for which data is available.

The Department offers tax free bursaries and scholarships for those completing Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses in subjects with the greatest need for new teachers. The amount the Department spent on ITT bursaries and scholarships for each subject in the last three years for which data is available (academic years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22) is provided in the attached.

The Department announced an ITT financial incentives package worth up to £181 million for 2023/24, which is a £52 million increase on the previous year. This includes bursaries worth £27,000 tax free and scholarships worth £29,000 tax free, to encourage talented trainees to teach in key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing.