Speeches

Lord Storey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-05-24.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the annual cost of providing assessment and testing materials in primary schools in England in each of the last five years.

Lord Nash

The comprehensive net expenditure of the Standards and Testing Agency in each of the last five years was as follows:

Year ending

Cost

Year ending March 2015

£46.2m

Year ending March 2014

£45.9m

Year ending March 2013

£38.7m

Year ending March 2012

£28.8m

Year ending March 2011

£40.3m