Pupils: Assessments

(asked on 8th July 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th July 2019

​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.

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