Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the schools budget was spent on supply teachers in (a) St Helens borough, (b) the Liverpool city region and (c) England in the most recent period for which figures are available.

The Department publishes annual income and expenditure, including on supply teachers, for local authority maintained schools and academies.

Schools’ Consistent Financial Reporting and Academies’ Accounting Returns are published and available at the following link: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

Spending on supply teaching staff comprises the following categories: supply teaching staff, plus supply teacher insurance, plus agency supply teaching staff, minus receipts from supply teacher insurance claims.