Schools: Capital Investment

(asked on 29th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the schools budget has been spent on capital expenditure in each of the last seven years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th July 2017

The Department provides capital and revenue funding for schools. The main sources of revenue funding are the dedicated schools grant (DSG) and pupil premium, which fund the ongoing costs of running a school. The main sources of capital funding are: allocations for condition and basic need to fund the building and maintenance of schools and school places; the Priority School Building programme; free schools and legacy programmes including Building Schools for the Future. Revenue funding can also be used for capital purposes.

The following table shows the total revenue and capital funding allocated to local authorities and schools in each of the last seven years.

DSG and pupil premium

Total schools capital2

2010-11

£31.2 billion

£6.2 billion

2011-12

£37.2 billion1

£4.9 billion

2012-13

£38.0 billion

£4.3 billion

2013-14

£39.9 billion

£4.0 billion

2014-15

£41.2 billion

£4.2 billion

2015-16

£42.6 billion

£4.5 billion

2016-17

£43.1 billion

£5.3 billion3

1. £4.9 billion of additional grants were mainstreamed into DSG in 2011-12.

2. Capital figures include basic need and condition allocations and actual expenditure for other programmes.

3.Budgeted expenditure and allocations. Subject to final expenditure outturns.

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