Armed Forces: Private Education
(asked on 16th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent from the Continuity of Education Allowance on placements at (a) Eton, (b) Charterhouse, (c) Harrow, (d) Rugby, (e) Shrewsbury, (f) Westminster, (g) Winchester, (h) St Paul's and (i) Merchant Taylors in the last financial year for which data is available.
The Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) payments made by Service personnel to the schools in question during Financial Year 2018-19 were as follows:
School | £ |
Eton College | 184,592 |
Charterhouse School | 14,814 |
Harrow School | 249,726 |
Rugby School | 155,547 |
Shrewsbury School | 355,978 |
Westminster School | 0 |
Winchester College | 60,925 |
St Paul’s School | 0 |
Merchant Taylor’s School | 0 |
Service personnel may select from a wide variety of schools across the UK from within the independent and state-maintained sectors. To qualify for the purposes of CEA, a school must: offer full boarding facilities; be registered with the appropriate UK education department; be subject to Ofsted inspection and, in the case of independent schools, be a member of an organisation affiliated to the Independent Schools Council or the Scottish Council for Independent Schools. Each claimant is required to contribute at least 10 per cent of the fees.