Department for Education capital spending, actual and forecast, 2007/18–2024/25 (2023/24 prices)

A stacked column chart from the Institute for Government showing Department for Education capital spending, actual and forecast, 2007/18–2024/25 (2023/24 prices), which shows that capital spending since 2011/12 has been lower than in the period before that. Projected spend in 2023/24 is higher in real terms than capital budgets have been at any point since 2016/17.

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Source: Source: Institute for Government analysis of HMT, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (‘Table 1.6/1.8/1.10’ and ‘Table 3.2/3.3/3.7’), 2019–2023, supported by CIPFA. Notes: Not all DfE capital spend relates to schools. Figures have been adjusted to account for machinery of government changes. In 2015/16 DfE had a capital overspend of £0.1bn Get the data Embed