Written questions by O'Brien.

How many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.

Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March in the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Figures are produced on an annual rather than monthly basis. Information on the number of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is routinely published at national level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March by local authority for the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Information on a monthly basis is not held centrally by the department.

Pursuant to the Answer of of 13 September 2024 to Question 4411 on Pupils: Per Capita Costs, what the funding per pupil was in state schools for (a) Dedicated Schools Grant block funding, (b) pay and pensions, (c) pupil premium, (d) growth and premises and (e) other funding in each (i) region and (ii) local authority in each year since 2018/19

Schools core funding is allocated through the dedicated schools grant (DSG), which includes growth and premises funding. These can be found as separate funding lines in the published DSG tables. DSG allocations are available at a regional and local authority level at the following links:www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.The department also provides pupil premium funding to support disadvantaged pupils. These allocations are also available at regional and local authority level using the published tables, which can be accessed at:www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2018-to-2019.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2024-to-2025.The department has also provided supplementary grants for schools to support them with the costs associated with teacher pay and pensions awards, as well as overall pressures. Information on the additional grants provided since 2018, such as the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) and the core schools’ budget grant (CSBG), can be found here:www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology.www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-supplementary-grant-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/mainstream-schools-additional-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2024-to-2025.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-2024-for-schools-high-needs-settings-and-local-authorities-2024-to-2025.www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-schools-budget-grant-csbg-2024-to-2025.Most of these grants have since been rolled into DSG allocations. The only exceptions are the TPAG 2024/25, the TPECG 2024/25 and the CSBG 2024/25, which will all be rolled into the DSG allocations from 2025/26 onwards.Outside core funding, schools have received a wide variety of further grants and programme funding since 2018/19. These are typically considerably smaller than the core funding streams set out above. This includes both funding provided nationally, and funding provided to particular areas and/or particular schools.

How many graduates of each higher education institution (a) have outstanding student loans and (b) are paying off such loans.

The attached table shows the number of borrowers who are liable to repay (i.e. are past their Statutory Repayment Due Date (SRDD) and have an outstanding loan) and of those, how many have ever made a repayment, split by Higher Education Provider (HEP).The data has been supplied by the Student Loans Company. The data is for England domiciled borrowers who undertook full-time undergraduate courses. Please note the following caveats regarding the data:The data is not directly comparable across HEPs due to different course offerings, student numbers, communities served, and demographics of student cohorts. For example, some demographics of graduates may be more likely to take part-time employment, which is less likely to result in earnings over the repayment threshold.Borrowers from newer providers, where the majority have only just passed their SRDD, are less likely to have made a repayment as yet.The figures represent a snapshot in time and will change as borrowers pass their SRDD and may move into employment.Figures less than 11 in the ‘liable to repay’ column and less than 6 in the ‘repaying’ column have been suppressed.Where HEPs’ names are duplicated, this can be for a number of reasons, including two different providers having the same name.