Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total spend in England on education for young people between the ages of three and 18 in 2020 (1) in cash terms, and (2) as a percentage of total government expenditure.

In the 2020/21 financial year, the department’s revenue funding for the 3 to 4-year-old universal and additional hours for the childcare entitlement was £3.1 billion. £51.5 billion was spent on school age pupils (5-16), and £6.2 billion on mainstream and high needs funding for 16-19 education in colleges, school sixth forms, and other institutions. In the 2020/21 financial year, the department’s revenue funding for apprenticeships for 16 to 18-year-olds was £500 million.

In relation to capital funding, it is not possible to separate out funding for young people aged 3 to 18 from other capital funding. The majority of the department’s capital funding supports young people in this age group. In the 2020/21 financial year, the department’s total capital expenditure was £4.8 billion.

In total, capital and revenue spend in England for these areas in the 2020/21 financial year was £66.2 billion.

Total managed expenditure for the government in the 2020/21 financial year, as published in HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, was £1,104 billion. The department’s expenditure to support young people in England, as outlined above, is 6% of total managed expenditure.