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...