Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which budgets are agreed.

The department’s annual report and accounts sets out the amount the department has spent in a given financial year. The latest document covers the 2022/23 financial year. This details the department’s capital and revenue grants and includes funding that goes to local authorities to distribute. Further information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023.

The largest elements of revenue funding the department pays directly to local authorities are through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). The published allocations show how much funding local authorities will receive for each of the four blocks of the DSG: the schools block, the central school services block, the high needs block, and the early years block. The latest publicly available allocations are for the 2023/24 financial year and are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.

A large proportion of schools’ capital funding is delivered through annual allocations to local authorities and larger Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs). This includes high needs provision capital allocations and basic need funding to local authorities to meet their duty to ensure there are enough places for children in their areas, and annual allocations to local authorities and MATs to maintain the condition of estates.

The latest allocations are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations, and here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-provision-capital-allocations.

The 2021 Spending Review agreed funding for the department for the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, with total funding rising to £91 billion by the 2024/25 financial year. As is common practice, when publishing allocations for individual grants these will show the recipients of funding.