Skills Bootcamps: Contracts
(asked on 17th June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government, for each financial year from 2023–24 to 2025–26, what was the total maximum funding available through centrally procured or directly managed national Skills Bootcamps contracts, and what was the final amount spent through those contracts in each year; and what is the forecast or allocated spend for 2026–27.
The department has not published starts targets split by national and local delivery.
Skills Bootcamps starts are published here. Releases - Skills bootcamps starts, completions and outcomes - page 1 - Explore education statistics - GOV.UK
The below table sets out spend for Skills Bootcamps national delivery by financial year. Final spend for the 2025-26 financial year is not yet available. In the 2026-27 financial year the Skills Bootcamps budget is £166 million.
Skills Bootcamps spend | 2021-22 FY | 2022-23 FY | 2023-24 FY | 2024-25 FY |
National delivery | £26,000,000 | £53,000,000 | £85,000,000 | £123,000,000 |
We do not hold contract allocation values for Skills Bootcamps national delivery by financial year as contracts span multiple financial years.