Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Private Education
(asked on 31st January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much money they have spent on the Continuity of Education Allowance programme in respect of the families of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office staff in each of the last 10 years; and how many children have benefitted from that programme.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The details of the number of children, and how much the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office have spent in each of the last 10 financial years on the Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) policy are in the table below:
| Academic Year | Total Spend | Total Number of Children |
| 2012/13 | £12,640,489.05 | 684 |
| 2013/14 | £14,651,331.96 | 637 |
| 2014/15 | £14,322,691.28 | 628 |
| 2015/16 | £13,440,797.70 | 616 |
| 2016/17 | £13,870,134.56 | 604 |
| 2017/18 | £13,531,420.70 | 518 |
| 2018/19 | £14,060,063.38 | 511 |
| 2019/20 | £14,916,298.06 | 525 |
| 2020/21 | £14,951,945.41 | 514 |
| 2021/22 | £14,410,903.45 | 531 |
*Figures may differ from previously published figures due to process changes/financial systems over the last 10 years