Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2018 to Question 149070 on Department for Education: Public Expenditure, what efficiencies, savings and emerging underspends his officials have identified from which additional investment in core schools funding will be funded.

In 2018-19, the Department is anticipating being able to deliver the majority of the required savings from Departmental underspends and unallocated funding without the need to make changes to existing policies or programmes.

This will be kept under review for 2019-20, but the Department is confident that this level of efficiency can be delivered while continuing to deliver the Department’s priorities.