Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the progress made by Randstad on meeting its contractual targets in respect of the (a) academic mentor and (b) tuition partner pillars of the National Tutoring Programme.

The department will shortly announce the outcome of the procurement process, through which we are seeking to appoint up to three delivery partners for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years.

The department will make a final assessment of Randstad's performance against its contractual targets after the contract expires on 31 August.

The independent evaluation of NTP in the 2021/22 academic year will be published before the end of 2023.