Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2019 to Question 229154 on Department of Education: Public Expenditure, what programmes other than delivering new school places and improving the condition of the school estate are being funded from the capital departmental expenditure limit in financial years 2018-19 to 2020-21; and how much has been allocated to each of those programmes in each of those years.

In addition to delivering new school places and improving the condition of schools, the department funds a range of capital projects across other sectors. In 2018-19, these projects included: £217 million to support our arms’ length bodies, including £150 million for the Office for Students to deliver priorities as agreed with the department; £75 million for investments in higher education and further education including Institutes of Technology and National Colleges.

The department will set out detailed plans for funding in future years of this Spending Review as part of its scheduled Main Estimates. The 2019-20 budgets will include capital funding to make sure that the colleges teaching the first T levels have world class equipment and facilities, as announced at the Conservative Party Conference.