Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department allocated to the Continuity of Education Allowance to fund school places (a) overseas and (b) in the UK in 2021-21; and how many children were covered by that funding.

In Financial Year 2021/22 legacy FCO allocated funding of £10,540,536 to Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) for 531 children in boarding schools in the UK.

In Financial Year 2021/22 legacy FCO allocated funding of £21,378,864 to 902 legacy FCO children in education overseas.

Information on the number of school places funded both in the UK and overseas is not held centrally for staff on legacy DFID terms and conditions.