Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the recently announced £300 million of catch up tutoring will go directly to schools.
On 24 February 2021, the Government announced a new £700 million plan to help young people catch up on lost education due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This package includes funding that will be provided directly to schools as well as funding for national support programmes that will provide additional capacity to support schools.
The funding includes: