Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding (a) academies and (b) non-academy schools have received from the soft drinks industry levy.

The Budget 2016 announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL). The Department for Education will receive £575 million during the current Spending Review period.

The funding has been used for the following projects:

• Healthy Pupils Capital Fund (HPCF) - £100 million of revenue generated from the SDIL is being used for the HPCF. HPCF allocations for each local authority and multi-academy trust, who were eligible to receive a direct allocation, were published in March 2018 and are available at the following link: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20190212204720/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations. Details of successful HPCF projects funded through the Condition Improvement Fund have been published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/condition-improvement-fund-2018-to-2019-outcome.
• Primary PE and Sport Premium - In September 2017, we announced that we had doubled the funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, with SDIL revenue contributing an additional £160 million a year to funding from the Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care. School-level allocations are available on gov.uk at: https://skillsfunding.service.gov.uk/pe-sport-premium/2018-2019/search-premium-allocation.
• Essential Life Skills (ELS) - We have invested £22 million in an ELS programme to enable disadvantaged children and young people living in some of the most deprived parts of the country to participate in regular extra-curricular activities. The ELS programme is targeting disadvantaged children and young people aged 5-18 across 12 Opportunity Areas (OAs). We have distributed funding of £7.95 million in 2017-18 and £13.8 million in 2018-19 to the 12 OAs to deliver ELS activities. We do not have funding data broken down by academies and non-academies.
• National Schools Breakfast Programme (NSBP) - We are investing up to £26 million into the NSBP. This money will kick start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 academies and non-academies. The focus of these clubs has been to target the most disadvantaged areas of the country (including the Department for Education’s OAs) to help make sure every child gets the best start in life. Information from the programme is still being collected and data on funding at local authority level is not available at this stage.