Written questions

Public Expenditure: Wales

Commons · Question 86699 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 4 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the total amount of funding to be allocated to the Welsh Government through the Barnett Formula following the the full rollout of free childcare in England.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 4 Nov 2025

The Barnett formula is applied when departmental budgets change - not when departments announce how they are spending their budgets or when policy is delivered. The Barnett formula was applied in the usual way following Spending Review 2025The published B...