Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the schools budget spent on supply teachers in (a) Kirklees, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last three years.

The Department does not hold information on spending specifically as a proportion of the school budget, but does hold information on the amount spent by schools on supply teaching staff (including such costs as insurance and agency fees) as a proportion of total expenditure by schools. We publish these data annually at:

Local authority maintained schools on the Department’s School and College Performance website: https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables, and

Academies in the Department’s Statistical First Release Income and expenditure in academies in England: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-and-expenditure-in-academies-in-england-2015-to-2016.

The published data are at school-level, including a filter to identify local authority such as Kirklees and those in West Yorkshire.