Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the financial saving to the public purse of children and young people being home educated.

There is no data collected centrally for the number of children who are educated at home. There is also no data for the relevant funding formula factors such as the children’s age, location and special educational needs.

Therefore, there has been no estimate of the financial savings for children who are home educated.