Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2017 to Question 5930, on schools: finance, which programmes she plans to reduce funding from in order to realise savings of £105 million from unallocated departmental capital.

As my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, set out in her oral statement of 17 July 2017, the Government will be investing an additional £1.3 billion in core schools funding. As part of this, she announced that the Department will make savings from the overall capital budget. She outlined £315 million of savings from healthy pupils capital and a further £105 million from unallocated Departmental capital. The £105 million is from our 2017-18 capital budget which was not allocated to a particular project, and has now been repurposed to the National Funding Formula.