PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Remote Education: Computers (20 January 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many laptops have been distributed to support remote learning to date, by parliamentary constituency; and how many of those laptops have been distributed to non-state schools.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

The Government is investing over £400 million to support access to remote education and online social care services, by securing 1.3 million laptops and tablets for disadvantaged children and young people. As of Monday 25 January 2021, over 870,000 laptops and tablets had been delivered to local authority maintained schools, academy trusts and local authorities.

All schools, academy trusts and local authorities have now been given the opportunity to order devices.

The Government is providing this significant injection of devices on top of an estimated 2.9 million laptops and tablets already owned by schools before the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. On 12 January 2021, the Department announced that it will be providing a further 300,000 devices over the course of this term.

Figures on the number of devices delivered are available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/laptops-and-tablets-data.

These figures are broken down by local authority and academy trust. Figures on delivery by constituency are not available.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
29 January 2021