Gareth Thomas – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Thomas on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost of regional school commissioners in each of the next three years; and if she will make a statement.

Edward Timpson

At present, I am unable to provide detailed information on the budget for the Regional Schools Commissioners for each of the next three years.

The Department’s spending review settlement was agreed in November. The Department has now begun a business planning process to devolve this budget internally to specific activities and functions. This work is intended to finish in early 2016, when the future budgets for all the Regional School Commissioners’ offices, including the South-Central and North-West London office, will be agreed for the next financial year (2016-17) and beyond.