Education Maintenance Allowances 2023-24
Statistics on Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) recipients and payments made in 2023-2024.
3. EMA payments
Total spend
The total spend on EMA in Scotland in 2023-24 was £16.7 million, which is a decrease of approximately 3% since 2022-23 (£17.3 million). Of this, £11.9 million was spent on school and Learning Agreement recipients, which constitutes 72% of total payments and £4.8 million was spent on college recipients, 28% of total payments.
Figure 2: EMA spend in millions (£m), by the type of institution, from academic year 2017-18 to 2023-24
Collection of data for 2019-20 and 2020-21 were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as such there is a break in the time series. This is represented here by the dotted line. A longer time series which goes back to the 2006-07 academic year is available in the supplementary tables.
Table 2: EMA spend in millions (£m), by the type of institution, from academic year 2021-22 to 2023-24.
| Year | Schools and Learning Agreements | College | All Institutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 14.5 | 4.0 | 18.6 |
| 2022-23 | 13.0 | 4.3 | 17.3 |
| 2023-24 | 11.9 | 4.8 | 16.7 |
Contact
Email: FHEstatistics@gov.scot
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