Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 13 December (HL4660), how many students are currently enrolled on a T level; and what has been the additional cost of funding more teaching hours for T level students.

We have published high level summary enrolment numbers for 2020 and 2021 in the recent T Level action plan and the one published in 2020, available to view here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/t-level-action-plan. We have also published 2020 starts in the 16-18 participation statistical data release in June 2021.

T Levels include more teaching hours than general 16-19 study programmes. Therefore, 4 larger bands have been added to the 16-19 funding bands to ensure schools, colleges and other training providers with T Level students are paid at a higher rate. The additional costs of this are as follows for the first two academic years of T Levels:

The funding for additional T Level teaching hours is based on the published allocations of T Level numbers using a comparison of the standard T Level and band 5 funding rates.