Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total value of contracts her Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.

A full answer could only be provided at disproportionate cost. This is because, to date, the Department has operated a devolved approach to contract management. In addition, the Department’s finance systems do not split contract spend between private sector, public sector, and third sector providers. The Department is implementing a new contracts system in 2015, which will provide improved coverage and detail on spending in 2015-16 and onwards.