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.
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 |
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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 |