Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many business leaders have been matched by the Academy Ambassadors programme with multi-academy trusts operating in the Northern Powerhouse.

Academy Ambassadors has helped multi-academy trusts to appoint 287 business leaders to their boards across the northern regions. 121 of these were made by trusts in the Regional Schools Commissioner area of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, 93 in East Midlands and Humber, and 73 in the North. An additional 17 appointments have been made to national multi-academy trusts, some of which have schools in the region.