Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Standards and Testing Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.

The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows: