Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has available in its Annually Managed Expenditure Budget to provide financial cover for anticipated policy changes in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

As set out in the Department for Education’s Main Estimates Memo, the financial control total for Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) in 2018-19 is £15,482,932m and the financial control total for AME in 2019-20 is £17,970,472m.

These control totals are set on the basis of current government policy and are underpinned by AME forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. The department’s control totals for AME are adjusted for any policy changes based on policy costings scrutinised by the Office for Budget Responsibility at fiscal events.