Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children in England receiving an education through unregistered alternative provision settings.

The department collects data on placements in local authority alternative provision (AP) through the AP census. Data on placements by schools in AP is collected in the schools census. Data by type of setting for placements made by both local authorities and schools is available in the National Statistics publication ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’, which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.