International Baccalaureate: Finance

(asked on 28th October 2025) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Baroness Smith of Malvern Portrait
Baroness Smith of Malvern
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 19th November 2025

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.

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