Education: Finance
(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the total budget for education in England in each year from (1) 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2022, and (2) 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022.
The Department’s resource and capital budgets from the 2015/16 to 2022/23 financial years are set out in the table below.
Financial year | Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit, excluding depreciation (RDEL), £ billions | Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL), £ billions |
2015/16 | 53 | 4.9 |
2016/17 | 60 | 6.0 |
2017/18 | 61 | 4.9 |
2018/19 | 62 | 5.5 |
2019/20 | 64 | 4.9 |
2020/21 | 69 | 5.4 |
2021/22 | 72 | 5.3 |
2022/23 | 77 | 6.4 |
Capital budgets vary between years, reflecting large capital programmes that spend at different rates across their lifetime and at different delivery stages.