Question follow-through · 17812
Turing Scheme: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16156 on Turing Scheme: Free School Meals, how many and what proportion of students with Turing grants are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16156 on Turing Scheme: Free School Meals, how many and what proportion of students with Turing grants are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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9 Dec 2024
Answer published
Through the Turing Scheme, in the 2024/25 academic year, education providers and other eligible organisations from across the UK and British Overseas Territories have been allocated over £105 million to send their students on more than 43,000 study and wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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