Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the proceeds from the soft drinks industry level will be allocated to (a) the PE and Sport Premium, (b) the Healthy Pupil Capital Fund, (c) expanding the opening hours of secondary schools and (d) providing healthy breakfasts for primary school pupils over each of the next two financial years; and what additional sums are to be allocated to those programmes from the public purse.

The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The department will receive £575 million during the current spending review period, which will be used to:

• Double funding for the primary physical education and Sport Premium to £320 million a year from 2017. The Department for Education and the Department of Health contribute £100 million and £60 million per year to the premium respectively, with the Soft Drinks Levy funding contributing £415 million over the remainder of the current spending review period, table attached.
• Provide £100 million in 2018/19 for a new healthy pupils capital fund.
• Provide £60 million to other relevant projects, for example breakfast clubs (£26 million over the next three years) and essential life skills programme.

Expected revenue from the levy during the Spending Review period is £550 million for the UK as a whole. The total funding provided for these programmes in England is £575 million. In addition, the devolved administrations will continue to benefit in full from the Barnett formula arising from the levy-funded spending package announced at the 2016 Budget.

We announced in February 2017 that the healthy pupils capital programme will build on the government’s plans for schools to provide a longer school day, by changing the focus of the scheme to provide new facilities or improve existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.