Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many alternative education schools are (1) registered, and (2) unregistered.

During the 2022/23 academic year there were 335 state funded alternative provision schools registered in England. Data on the number of state funded alternative provision schools is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics. Independent schools can also cater for children requiring alternative provision. There is no specific designation for such schools.

The department does not collect data on the number of alternative provision settings, typically called unregistered alternative provision, that do not meet the criteria to register as a school.