Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the budget for the National Tutoring Programme was not spent in each year of the programme's operation.

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) makes available subsidised tutoring to boost progress and support for those pupils most in need to catch up on education lost because of COVID-19 pandemic.

There is extensive evidence that tutoring is one of the most effective ways to accelerate academic progress. This is why the Department is providing more than £1 billion to support tutoring over four academic years, from 2020/21 to 2023/24.

In the 2020/21 academic year the budget for the NTP was £109 million, of which £41 million was unspent.

In the 2021/22 academic year the budget for the NTP was £485 million, with estimates that £206 million of this funding was unspent.

The final position for the 2021/22 academic year will be set out in the Department’s annual accounts, which will be published later this year. Figures for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years are not yet available.