Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will estimate how much money his Department has spent in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since May 2010.

The Department for Education does not allocate or record spending at a Parliamentary constituency level. The majority of funding provided by the Department for Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency is allocated indirectly via Lancashire local authority.[1]

Therefore, we have shown total allocations to Lancashire local authority, and to free schools, non-recoupment academies and music education hubs within Lancashire, with revenue and capital spending in separate tables. We do allocate funding directly to providers of 16-19 education, so we have separately shown total allocations for 16-19 education within the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale.

Table A shows the total revenue allocations made by the Department to Lancashire local authority, and to free schools, non-recoupment academies and music education hubs within Lancashire, in each of the financial years 2010-11 to 2013-14. This funding includes: the Dedicated Schools Grant (including two-, three- and four-year-old education); non-recoupment academies and free schools funding; Pupil Premium; music and sport grants; SEND and adoption reform grants; the Early Intervention Grant before 2013-14; and, from 2013-14, the Education Services Grant. The figures provided are in cash terms.

Table A: Revenue funding

The figures in Table A are not comparable year-on-year for the reasons given below:

1. Since May 2010, there have been transfers of funding between DfE and other Government departments. These were mainly small amounts but the most significant were the Education Services Grant (national total of £1.03bn), which transferred from DCLG to DfE in 2013-14, and the Early Intervention Grant (national total of £2.3bn), which transferred from DfE to DCLG in 2013-14, with only a topslice remaining in DfE budgets.

2. DfE has also provided some funding to other Government departments to contribute to programmes that were jointly funded and managed, such as the Child Poverty Programme, administered by DWP.

Table B shows the total capital allocations to Lancashire schools from 2010-11 to 2013-14. Complete information on the Department's capital spending by constituency is not held centrally. The figures provided are in cash terms.

Table B: Capital funding

The Department provides funding directly to providers of 16-19 education on an academic year basis. Table C shows the total allocations made to post-16 institutions within the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale during the academic years 2010/11 to 2013/14 by the DfE and its agencies. 2013/14 was the first year of funding under a new 16-19 funding formula, so figures are not directly comparable to those of previous years. The figures provided are in cash terms.

Table C: 16-19 education

[1] We provide funding for free schools, non-recoupment academies and 16-19 institutions directly and provide funding for music education hubs via Arts Council England.