Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department spent on the teachers' student loan reimbursement programme in each of the last three years for which data is available.

The Teachers’ Student Loan Reimbursement (TSLR) scheme was introduced in 2017 and allows eligible physics, chemistry, biology, languages or computing teachers to claim back the student loan repayments they made in the previous financial year, for up to 11 financial years, if they are teaching in one of 26 Local Authorities.

The amount the Department spent on TSLR payments to teachers in the last three years that are available (academic years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22) is provided in the attached.