Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of undertaking baseline assessments in each financial year from 2019-20 to 2023-24.
The estimated spend on the reception baseline assessment (RBA) for the financial years 2019-20 to 2023-24 is as follows:
2019-20 | £2.9 million |
2020-21 | £3.6 million |
2021-22 | £3.4 million |
2022-23 | £430,000 |
2023-24 | £430,000 |
These figures include the estimated spend for both the National Foundation for Educational Research RBA assessment and current development plans for the RBA for 2022-24.