Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of supply teachers hired by academies in England each year since 2017.

Information on school spending is found in the schools financial benchmarking tool which contains Local Authority maintained schools’ Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) returns and academies’ accounting returns (AARs). The tool is found here: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

The CFR and AAR results publish spending by schools on supply teachers. The latest information available is for the 2020/21 academic year for academies.