Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding (a) the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and (b) the Department for International Development allocated for the Continuity of Education Allowance to fund school places (i) overseas and (ii) in the UK in 2019-20; and how many school places that funding supported in total.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office allocated £14,065,819 to fund school places in the UK under Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in financial year 2019/2020 and allocated £19,993,202,91 in financial year 2019/2020 to fund school places overseas. The information on the number of school places funded is not held centrally. There were 538 children in CEA in financial year 2019/2020.

The Department for International Development did not offer Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) to staff although in some circumstances education is funded for children in the UK and abroad. Information on the number of school places funded is not held centrally.