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Educational Visits: Costs

Commons · Question 44947 · Tabled 8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact on participation of the change in the average cost of domestic school trips since 2019; and if she will make an assessment of the trends in the levels of the contrib

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 29 Apr 2025

The department is providing schools with an additional £3.2 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, taking total core school budgets to over £64.8 billion. Schools have autonomy over how they use this funding to best support their pupils based on their ind...