Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide (a) breakdown of forecast expenditure of the proceeds of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy for (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018-19 and (iii) 2019/20; and (b) unallocated funding for those years.

The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The department will receive £575 million during the current spending review period, which will be used to:

• Double funding for the primary physical education and Sport Premium to £320 million a year from 2017. The Department for Education and the Department of Health contribute £100 million and £60 million per year to the premium respectively, with the Soft Drinks Levy funding contributing £415 million over the remainder of the current spending review period, table attached.
• Provide £100 million in 2018/19 for a new healthy pupils capital fund.
• Provide £60 million to other relevant projects, for example breakfast clubs (£26 million over the next three years) and essential life skills programme.

Expected revenue from the levy during the Spending Review period is £550 million for the UK as a whole. The total funding provided for these programmes in England is £575 million. In addition, the devolved administrations will continue to benefit in full from the Barnett formula arising from the levy-funded spending package announced at the 2016 Budget.

We announced in February 2017 that the healthy pupils capital programme will build on the government’s plans for schools to provide a longer school day, by changing the focus of the scheme to provide new facilities or improve existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.