Social Mobility Commission

(asked on 16th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the budget for the Social Mobility Commission was in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 19th January 2018

The Commission became operational in December 2012 (then as the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission). The government has previously allocated the following funding to the Commission:

  • £227,000 in 2012-3 (from October 2012 – March 2013);
  • £600,000 in 2013-4;
  • £600,000 in 2014-5;
  • £600,000 in 2015-6;
  • £589,000 in 2016-7;
  • £610,000 in 2017-8.
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