Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the payment rate for tutors delivering the National Tutoring Programme.

High quality tuition remains one of the core principles of the programme, and the department have worked closely with delivery partners to ensure this is delivered across both pillars of the programme.

When selecting approved tuition partners, the department worked with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to ensure schools had a wide range of high quality tuition partners to choose from in order to best suit the needs of pupils.

As a result, the approved tuition partners include a range of profit, non-profit and educational institutions, all of which offer tuition through different models and varying in price. It is the responsibility and discretion of tuition partners to set their own pay and conditions for the tutors they employ in accordance with other costs associated to tutoring, such as training, preparation for sessions, delivering tutoring via online platforms, communication with schools and quality assurance processes.

The EEF have developed a guide to the cost, quality and value for money of tuition, which can be accessed here: https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/news/making-tutoring-count-cost-quality-and-value-for-money.