{"value":{"id":794064,"askingMemberId":4263,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","uin":"115152","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide (a) breakdown of forecast expenditure of the proceeds of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy for  (i)  2017-18, (ii) 2018-19 and (iii) 2019/20; and (b) unallocated funding for those years.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1562,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2017-11-28T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The 2016 Budget announced funding for a number of programmes linked to the revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. The department will receive £575 million during the current spending review period, which will be used to:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Double funding for the primary physical education and Sport Premium to £320 million a year from 2017. The Department for Education and the Department of Health contribute £100 million and £60 million per year to the premium respectively, with the Soft Drinks Levy funding contributing £415 million over the remainder of the current spending review period, table attached.</li><li>Provide £100 million in 2018/19 for a new healthy pupils capital fund.</li><li>Provide £60 million to other relevant projects, for example breakfast clubs (£26 million over the next three years) and essential life skills programme.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Expected revenue from the levy during the Spending Review period is £550 million for the UK as a whole. The total funding provided for these programmes in England is £575 million. In addition, the devolved administrations will continue to benefit in full from the Barnett formula arising from the levy-funded spending package announced at the 2016 Budget.</p><p> </p><p>We announced in February 2017 that the healthy pupils capital programme will build on the government’s plans for schools to provide a longer school day, by changing the focus of the scheme to provide new facilities or improve existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":1,"heading":"Soft Drinks: Taxation","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/794064/original/115152, 115565 Table.docx","title":"Funding for the premium from the soft drinks levy","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":22827}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/794064","method":"GET"}]}