Secondary Education: Expenditure
Commons · Question 101951 · Tabled 2 Jan 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of putting a child through secondary state school education.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 12 Jan 2026
Annually, the department publishes the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), which includes information on the amount of core schools funding allocated by the department nationally as well as to each local authority. This includes the amount of funding allocated...