Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost the public purse has been for T levels in each academic year since 2017/18.

The total spend on the T Level Programme between the financial years 2017/18 and 2022/23 is due to be £918.5 million. This includes developing and growing the capacity of teachers to deliver T Levels effectively. Of this total, approximately £400 million capital funding has been provided to colleges and other providers for the first four waves of T Level delivery, starting in September 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, to improve the quality of facilities and equipment that will be used to deliver T Levels.