Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on child protection schemes in each of the last five years, by budget heading; and what her Department's forecast budgets are for such schemes in the next financial year.
The table below sets out the programme expenditure across Children’s Social Care Divisions for the financial years 2013-14 to 2016-17, current budget for this financial year and the provisional budget for 2018-19.
DfE Children's Social Care | Expenditure | Budget | Provisional Budget | |||
(£m) | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Total | 264.9 | 340.3 | 291.3 | 300.6 | 332.6 | 330.7 |