Department for Education: Public Expenditure

(asked on 13th June 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the (a) highest ten areas of programme expenditure under the exclusive control of her Department during the spending review period 2022-23 to 2024-25 and (b) amount of programme expenditure allocated to each area during that period.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 21st June 2022

The Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 settlement provided programme budgets for the department of £76.5 billion for the 2022/23 financial year, £78.7 billion for the 2023/24 financial year and £80.1 billion for the 2024/25 financial year. The ten highest areas of programme expenditure for the 2022/23 financial year are in the table below. Departmental expenditure is subject to an annual planning exercise. For this reason, we are only able to confirm funding figures for the 2022/23 financial year.

Government departments routinely transfer funding where there are shared priority programmes. Across the spending review period, the department will jointly deliver programmes with other government departments such as the Multiply programme to improve adult literacy and creating a network of family hubs to improve access to start for life services.

Further information on departmental and cross-government funding can be found within the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 document, which is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1043689/Budget_AB2021_Web_Accessible.pdf.

Ten highest areas of forecast department programme expenditure, 2022/23 financial year

Schools block of the dedicated schools grant

£40.5 billion

High needs block of the dedicated schools grant

£9.0 billion

16-19 education and T-Levels

£6.4 billion

Early years block of the dedicated schools grant

£3.6 billion

Pupil premium

£2.7 billion

Apprenticeships

£2.5 billion

Adult education budget

£1.4 billion

Strategic Priorities Grant

£1.4 billion

Schools supplementary grant (supporting schools with costs of the Health and Social Care Levy)

£1.2 billion

Education recovery programmes

£1.2 billion

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