Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has any plans to increase funding for the Inspiring Governance programme.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The department contracts with the charity Education and Employers Taskforce to deliver Inspiring Governance, a service to support recruitment in school governance by matching those who wish to be governors to school vacancies. The contract runs to the end of March 2020, and is worth £1 million per annum.
There are no plans to increase funding to this programme.