Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has allocated to Havering Council through the Wellbeing for Education Recovery Grant.

The department provided Wellbeing for Education Return/Recovery grants to local authorities in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, to provide additional support to state-funded schools and colleges to enable education staff to promote and support the wellbeing and mental health of pupils and students, during the return to schools and in the COVID-19 pandemic recovery period.

The London Borough of Havering received a Wellbeing for Education Return grant of £32,031 in the 2020/21 financial year and a further Wellbeing for Education Recovery grant of £27,644 in the 2021/22 financial year, amounting to a total of £59,675. This data can be obtained from the tables published in the Wellbeing for Education Return and Recovery grant determination letters, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter.