Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to enable students to obtain International Baccalaureate qualifications in each of the past five years, and how much funding they will provide for that purpose in 2026–27.
Funding is not provided specifically to enable students to obtain International Baccalaureate qualifications. The amounts of total programme funding allocated to institutions for 16 to 19 year olds to undertake T Levels and study programmes, which include the International Baccalaureate over the last 5 years can be found in the table below:
Academic Year | Total Programme Funding for 16 – 19 year old students |
2021 to 2022 | £5.9 billion |
2022 to 2023 | £6.5 billion |
2023 to 2024 | £7.0 billion |
2024 to 2025 | £7.6 billion |
2025 to 2026 | £8.6 billion |
Department for Education funded providers offering the International Baccalaureate will continue to receive 16-19 education funding in the 2026/2027 academic year but the allocations have not yet been made and so the total programme funding figure is not yet available.