Question follow-through · 84580

Turing Scheme: Educational Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce the risk of schools in disadvantaged areas excluding pupils from Turing Scheme-funded excursions due to the cap on funding.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
3 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce the risk of schools in disadvantaged areas excluding pupils from Turing Scheme-funded excursions due to the cap on funding.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 3 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    In the current academic year of the Turing Scheme, we applied a cap to the funding that schools could apply for. Schools could receive funding of up to £50,000 for a single application or, applying as a consortium, up to £50,000 per school to a maximum of...

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