Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that contributions to education resources commissioned by Oak National Academy are done so on the basis of fair terms and remuneration.

Oak National Academy’s first procurement to commission new curriculum packages closed in December 2023 and Oak will be confirming successful bidders in the coming weeks. Up to £8 million was available to curriculum partners through this procurement, with more funding in future rounds.

As part of the bidding process, bidders were required to set out their full costings for intellectual property and time to develop resources. Successful bidders will be remunerated accordingly.

The procurement complies with the Public Contracts Regulations (2015).