Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money Virtual Class Ltd, company number 08260115, which trades as Third Space Learning, has received from his Department (a) directly and (b) through the National Tutoring Programme in the financial year 2022-23 to date; and for what purposes those monies have been disbursed in each of the last three financial years; and if he will make a statement.

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) provides schools with subsidised access to tutoring, supporting their pupils to recover from learning lost through the COVID-19 pandemic. Third Space Learning has not received any funding directly from the department. Up to 15 July 2022, it has received £3.8 million in the 2022/23 financial year from the NTP’s delivery partner, Randstad, in payment for tutoring hours delivered to schools. Any funds disbursed to Third Space Learning over the last three financial years were paid for the purposes of providing tuition to schools.