Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how funding raised from the Immigration Skills Charge and designated for her Department’s Skills Budget was spent in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial years.

The department does not receive a hypothecated budget for the Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) and does not therefore maintain a list of individual projects in this way.

The amount of funding generated by the charge will depend on employer use of the skilled worker route. While the income raised is not additional funding for skills, the ISC is helping to maintain the department’s existing skills budget and existing level of investment in skills in England.

Information on ISC revenue can be found in the Home Office's annual report and accounts, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022.