Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) planned and (b) actual expenditure on 16-19 education was in each of the last three years in Wallasey constituency.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency publish annually the funding allocations for individual institutions delivering education to 16 to 19 year olds. In terms of planned and actual expenditure, for schools and colleges, what is allocated is paid to the institutions. Therefore, the allocations data for these institution types equates to planned and actual expenditure by the department. Data for 16 to 19 further education includes the funding allocated and the related student numbers for each institution. The allocations data is available on GOV.UK, as follows;

2015/16:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2015-to-2016-academic-year.

2016/17:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2016-to-2017-academic-year.

2017/18:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2017-to-2018-academic-year.