Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish which (a) consultancies, (b) research organisations and (c) think tanks his Department has hired to conduct (i) evaluations and (ii) research for Departmental programmes; and how much his Department has spent with each of those bodies on each of those activities in (A) 2018-19, (B) 2019-20 and (C) 2020-21 to date.

A detailed analysis of the Department spend is published at the links below. The reports can be filtered by Research and Development.

Spend reporting for Financial Year 2020 to 2021: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2020-to-2021.

Spend reporting for Financial Year 2019 to 2020: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2019-to-2020.

Spend reporting for Financial Year 2018 to 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2018-to-2019.

Additional Financial Years can be found following similar link formats.

In addition, the Department contributes to the annual Office for National Statistics Research and Development expenditure report. The latest publication can be found at the link below: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure.

The next report covering the 2019-2020 financial year is due to be published in June 2021 by the Office for National Statistics.