Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her oral statement of 17 July 2017 on school funding, Official Report, column 565, what efficiencies and savings there will be from her Department's main capital budget excluding healthy pupils capital funding.

As my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, set out in her oral statement of 17 July 2017, the government will be investing an additional £1.3 billion in core schools funding in 2018-19 and 2019-20. This is over and above levels of investment in schools set in the 2015 spending review. This additional investment will be funded in full from efficiencies and savings within the department’s budget. As part of this, the department will make savings of £315 million from healthy pupils capital and a further £105 million from unallocated departmental capital.