Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils who are registered with a state-funded school spend less than two days a week in a placement with an unregistered alternative provider.

The department collects information via the alternative provision census on pupils aged 2-18 which local authorities have placed in unregistered providers. Since the 2022/23 academic year, the department has also collected information via the school census on placements made by schools, with the first mandatory collection being within the spring census.

The published data is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2022-23. The information is not readily available from this source in the form requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.