Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many tutoring opportunities for children in England are currently available at (1) primary schools, (2) secondary schools, and (3) schools catering for special educational needs.

For this academic year the National Tutoring Programme will offer access to high quality tuition for up to 2 million pupils.

The latest figures for the current academic year, to the end of September 2021 are:

• 40 Tuition Partners have been accredited
• 2,800 schools have placed orders with Tuition Partners
• 6,400 pupils started a tuition program with Tuition Partners
• 353 Academic Mentors have been placed in schools

All state-funded primary and secondary schools in England, including academies and free schools, have also received funding to deliver school-led tutoring giving them the flexibility to choose their own tutors. Funding has been calculated based on the number of pupil premium students in individual schools.

There is currently no comprehensive break down between primary schools and secondary schools. The department will have this information by the end of the autumn term.

Specialist settings including special schools and academies, alternative provision, pupil referral units and hospital schools, will receive an uplift to their school led tuition funding to cater for the additional per pupil costs they face.

I can confirm we have Tuition Partners who between them have capacity to support a total of 80,000 pupils in special educational needs settings.