Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be a Barnett consequential for the Scottish budget as a result of the additional funding provided for Computing Science in education in England.

The additional funding for computing science in education formed part of the Skills package announced at the 2017 Autumn Budget. The Barnett Formula was applied in the normal way to these allocations and resulted in Barnett consequentials for the Scottish Government of £4.3 million in 2018/19 and £7.3 million in 2019/20.

The Barnett consequentials for the devolved administrations are shown in HM Treasury’s Block Grant Transparency publication (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-december-2017-publication).