Department for Education: Public Expenditure
(asked on 26th March 2019) - View Source
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 for Education: Public Expenditure, how much of the (a) £23 billion his Department has allocated to the school estate and (b) £7 billion his Department has allocated for the creation of new school places between 2015 and 2021 will be spent in the fiscal year (i) 2016-17, (ii) 2017-18, (iii) 2018-19, (iv) 2019-20 and (v) 2020-21.
The Department’s Supplementary Estimate publishes budgets for school's capital programmes annually, which are set out as below.
2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
£5.170 million | £4.393 million | £4.663 million |
Detailed spending plans for future financial years will be set out in future Main and Supplementary Estimates. The sources for this information are available here: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Education/Estimates-Memoranda/Department-for-Education-Supplementary-Estimate-2017-18-Memorandum.pdf and
The Department has committed £7 billion to create new school places between 2015 and 2021. This includes spend in 2015-16 as well as the years specified in the question. The Department’s main capital funding for new school places is through the annual basic need allocations. The payment schedule for these allocations can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations.
The Department has also committed £365 million between 2018 and 2021 to create new places and improve facilities for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. The payment schedule can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-provision-capital-funding-for-pupils-with-ehc-plans.
Additional school places are also created through other capital programmes, including the Condition Improvement Fund, to which a link can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/condition-improvement-fund.