Department of Education: Public Expenditure

(asked on 25th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much resource and capital was allocated to the Department of Education in the Spending Review 2025 for (1) 2026–27, (2) 2027–28, and (3) 2028–29; whether they have revised the spending allocations for that department at any point since the Spending Review 2025 on 11 June 2025; and if so, whether they will publish the revised spending allocations for capital and resource in each of those years.


Answered by
Lord Livermore Portrait
Lord Livermore
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 12th March 2026

All departments’ Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budgets are freely available on GOV.UK.

DfE’s DEL budgets allocated at the Spending Review 2025 were:

£bn

2026-27

2027-28

2028-29

RDEL

98.3

100.1

101.5

CDEL

8.3

7.7

7.7

Revised budgets were published at the Autumn Budget in 2025:

£bn

2026-27

2027-28

2028-29

RDEL

98.3

100.2

101.0

CDEL

8.3

7.7

7.7

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