Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on anti-bullying initiatives for schools in England in the last 12 months.

The department is providing over £3 million of funding, between 10 August 2021 and 31 March 2024, to five anti-bullying organisations to support both primary and secondary schools to tackle bullying. Over the last 12 months, £1.16 million in funding has been provided to the five organisations as part of year two of the programme. This three-year funding programme includes projects targeting bullying of particular groups, such as those who are victims of hate related bullying and homophobic, biphobic and transphobic based bullying.