Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Tutoring Programme Ad Hoc Statistics published in March 2022, how many of the 1,031,000 starts were made by children with SEND.
The department does not currently hold the break down data for all 1,031,000 starts. The Education Endowment Foundation plans to publish their evaluation of the National Tutoring Programme in the academic year 2020/21 in autumn 2022. This data will include breakdowns of the pupils who received tutoring in the academic year 2020/21, including pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
The department's written ministerial statement of 31 March 2022 gives more detail about the programme. This statement is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-tutoring-programme-simplified-to-reach-as-many-pupils-as-possible.
It accompanied the statistical release showing 1.2 million tutoring courses have started since November 2020. This publication is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/national-tutoring-programme/2022-march.