Education Scotland Budget: FOI release

Information requested

Q1 - What is the budget provided to your organisation since 2018-19 to 2025-26?

Q2 - How much money is leftover from the budget, after salaries and overheads have been deducted?

Response

Q1 - Budget provided to Education Scotland

The budget for 2025-26 is the draft budget and this has been published within the most recent Scottish Budget document.

2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
£32.940m	£38.381m	£41.147m	£45.821m	£46.476m	£45.438m	£46.728m	£31.066m*

* During the year Education Scotland receives additional budget from the Scottish Government to carry out work which is outwith the core remit. The amount shown for 2025-26 is for the core budget only as other budget transfers have not yet been confirmed.

Q2 - Leftover Budget

2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
£0.829m	£0.577m	£0.931m	£1.123m	£3.867m	£0.174m	-	-

The budget underspend has been provided in the table above. Note that the information for 2024-25 is not yet available as the audit is on-going. The likely publication date for this information is August 2025. The budget underspend for 2025-26 will not be available until Summer 2026.

All of the information provided is already available in Education Scotland’s Annual Report and Accounts which is published on the Education Scotland website. These publications include more detailed information on salary costs and categories of expenditure to allow you to review the costs more fully.

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