Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of funding paid to supply agencies from schools was in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.

Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure. Please note that this publication does not include academies.

School level data (including academies) is available at the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019-20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020-21 academic year in spring 2022): https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

Available data on expenditure in schools on agency supply teaching staff is set out below.

Table 1: Schools in England expenditure on agency supply teaching staff, £million and percentage of total expenditure

2018-19 to 2020-21¹

Source: local authority maintained schools - Consistent Financial Reporting. Academies - academy account returns.

¹ Local authority maintained schools by financial year, academies by academic year.

² Information for academies for the academic year 2020-21 will be available in spring 2022.

³ Includes expenditure by academies and central expenditure by multi academy trusts.