Private schools were handed more than £157m in government-subsidised loans during the pandemic, under a scheme that barred state schools from applying, openDemocracy can reveal.
Elite institutions that benefited include Charterhouse, the former school of chancellor Jeremy Hunt, which charges up to £44,000 a year per pupil.
It received a £5m Covid support loan to help with “any short-term cash flow issues” – despite declaring total income of almost £45m for 2020–21, the financial year in which it claimed the loan.
