Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was allocated to the Social Mobility Commission from the public purse in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18; and how much such funding is planned to be allocated in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020-21.
The Department for Education is fully committed to the work of the Social Mobility Commission. We value the wide-ranging work carried out by the Commission, including its research programme, its State of the Nation annual reports, and both the Social Mobility Index and the Social Mobility Employer Index.
The government has previously allocated the following funding to the Commission:
Future funding allocations have not yet been agreed and will be decided by the Department for Education, in consultation with the Commission, at the appropriate time. This is in accordance with normal procedures for non-departmental public bodies.