Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) national total and (b) average per school cost was of using supply teachers in the financial years (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21 and (iv) 2021-22 to November 2021.

The requested information for all available years is shown in the attached table.

Information for local authority maintained schools was sourced from consistent financial reporting. The latest year for which this is available is the 2019-20 financial year, and is available as part of the publication, Local Authority and School Expenditure, available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure/2019-20. Information is also available at school level on the Financial Benchmarking website available here: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/. Information for the 2020-21 financial year will be published in December 2021. Information for the 2021-22 financial year will be collected in summer 2022.

Information on academies was sourced from academy accounts returns. Information for both school level and central expenditure by multi academy trusts is published on the Financial Benchmarking available here: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/. The latest available information is for the 2019-20 academic year. Information for the 2020-21 academic year will be available in early spring 2022. Information for the 2021-22 academic year will be collected in autumn 2022.