Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2018 to Question 176324 on Teachers: Pensions, whether his Department is consulting on whether any additional funding should be provided to independent schools to meet higher employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

In the independent schools sector, the Department currently proposes to fund independent special schools and non-maintained special schools. Other than this, the Department does not currently intend to provide further funding, but will be consulting shortly to seek views and understand the impact these costs will impose on the sector.