Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of funding for the Unit for Future Skills since May 2022.
The total cost for the Unit for Future Skills (UFS) from May 2022 to August 2023 is £2,569,794. The main UFS costs are its staff. There are around 20 people in the team, the majority analysts. The team also commissions external work by researchers and data experts to support the aims of the unit.