Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department allocated to the Continuity of Education Allowance to fund school places (a) overseas and (b) in the UK in 2020-21; and how many children were covered by that funding.

CEA is a long-standing policy run under previous administrations and there have been no recent changes. In Financial Year 2020/21 legacy FCO allocated funding of £12,076.369 to Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) for 529 children in boarding schools in the UK.

In Financial Year 2020/21 legacy FCO allocated funding of £22,496,920 to 949 legacy FCO children in education overseas.