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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of his Department's budget he expects will be spent on (a) schools, (b) under-fives provision and (c) the teaching of A levels or highers in each year from 2005-06 to 2007-08. [202739] Mr. Charles Clarke: It is not possible to give a breakdown in precisely these categories. The following table shows the proportion of the Department's resources I expect to be spent in the areas shown. These figures are based on current planning assumptions and are, therefore, indicative only and subject to change. They do not include resources within the local government finance settlement. Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Under-fives, sure start and 4 5 5 childcare Schools, excluding schools sixth 31 30 31 forms School sixth forms and 16-18 13 14 14 provision in further education, excluding work based training for young people _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 16-18 provision in further education includes both academic and vocation provision at all levels of the National Qualifications Framework, and the funding made available in the 2004 Spending Review for 16-18 buildings and facilities. There is a slight drop in the proportion of my Department's resources that I expect to be spent on schools in 2006/07 followed by a rise in 2007/08. This is the combined consequence of Differential overall rates of increase in revenue and capital expenditure over the period Funding from my Department for schools including a higher proportion of capital expenditure than for other sectors. The remainder of the Department's resources for the period are allocated as follows: Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Children, young people and 4 4 4 families Further education and skills 19 18 18 Higher education 27 27 27 Activity to support all functions 2 1 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

202739; 428 c831-2W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Childcare Finance Education Further education Higher education Pre-school education Schools Sixth form education Sure Start programme

Contains statistics

Yes

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