Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2022 to Question 42008 on Department for Education: Public Expenditure, what the expenditure has been to the nearest ten million pounds of each programme in the 2022-23 financial year as of 19 December 2022; and if she will make a statement.

The Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 settlement provided Programme budget for the Department of £76.5 billion in the 2022/23 financial year.

At the start of each financial year, departments publish their Main Estimates, setting out planned expenditure for that year. The Department’s 2022/23 Main Estimates are available at: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22269/documents/164868/default/.

HM Treasury are due to publish the 2022/23 Supplementary Estimates in February 2023, which will provide an update to all departments’ budgets this year.

After the end of the financial year, the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) are published, including the Statement of Parliamentary Supply. This shows the outturn for the financial year against each estimate line. The 2022/23 financial year ARA will be produced and audited ahead of publication after the end of this financial year. The 2021/22 ARA is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.

The Department does not hold year to date spending information in the format requested. The majority of this funding is covered through the schools, high needs, and early years blocks of the Dedicated Schools Grant. The Department sets out payment schedules in the public conditions of grant documents. The payment schedule for the schools, high needs, and early years blocks of the Dedicated Schools Grant for 2022/23 is available in Annex A at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023/dsg-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023.