Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many specialist contractors hired by her Department to advise regional school commissioners there are; and how much her Department spent on such contractors in the last financial year.
The Department has contracted 92 suppliers to provide education specialist contractors to support the academies and free school programme. Further details can be found in Annex G of the supplementary evidence submitted to the Education Select Committee on the role of RSCs, which can be found here:
In financial year 2014-15, the Department spent £1,112,580.53 on education specialist contractors to support the regional school commissioners.