Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2018 to Question 153261 on Teachers: Recruitment, if he will provide the finalised (a) total spending and (b) under-spend on teacher training bursaries in the 2017/18 academic year now that that academic year has concluded.
Following the conclusion of the 2017/18 academic year, we require teacher training providers to complete a rigourous financial assurance exercise to demonstrate that they have properly administered training bursary funding on behalf of the Department. This exercise will be complete at the end of the 2018-19 financial year, at which time finalised spend figures will be available.