Department for Education: Public Expenditure

(asked on 20th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 June 2022 to Question 17076, if she will publish the (a) highest 10 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
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 8th September 2023

The Department’s programme budget, as restated in the Spring Budget 2023, is £76.5 billion in 2022/23, £81.1 billion in 2023/24 and £84.4 billion in 2024/25.

The Department’s annual report and accounts 2022/23 provides detail of programme expenditure in 2022/23 and is accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023.

The Department’s Main Estimate sets out the budget for the financial year and is accessible at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/main-supply-estimates-2023-to-24.

The ten highest areas of planned programme expenditure in 2023/24 included in the Estimate are displayed in the below table:

Area of programme expenditure

£ billion

Schools block of the dedicated schools grant

44.35

High needs block of the dedicated schools grant

9.95

16-19 education and T-Levels

6.83

Early years block of the dedicated schools grant

3.89

Pupil premium

2.87

Apprenticeships

2.59

Strategic Priorities Grant

1.46

Adult education budget

1.46

Education recovery programmes

1.01

Private Finance Initiative revenue grant

0.75

These numbers will be revised as required at the Supplementary Estimate for the funding to be provided to schools in 2023/24 following the announcement of the teachers’ pay award, and to drive forward skills delivery in the further education sector. Departmental expenditure is subject to an annual planning exercise. For this reason, the Department are unable to confirm figures for 2024/25. 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 numeracy and to create a network of family hubs to improve access to start for life services. Further information on cross-Government funding can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-treasury.

The Department does not hold month by month budget or expenditure information in the format requested. The Department does publish a payment schedule for the dedicated schools grant, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024/dsg-conditions-of-grant-2023-to-2024.

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