Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase numeracy rates for children from low-income households.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 April 2021 to Question 176112.

In addition to this, the Department has also launched the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) which provides additional, targeted support for those children and young people who have been hardest hit from disruption to their education as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The NTP is an ambitious scheme that aims to increase access to high-quality tuition for the most disadvantaged children and young people, helping to accelerate their academic progress and tackling the attainment gap between them and their peers.

Children can receive tuition in one of six main subject areas, including mathematics. Further information on the NTP can be found here: https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/.