§ The Earl of Northeskasked Her Majesty's Government:
What proportion and value of the budget of public sector education was spent on information technology projects and procurement in each of the last five years. [HL6277]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills (Baroness Ashton of Upholland):The table below sets out the value of information technology programmes supported by specific central government grant as a proportion of overall expenditure on education in England. Since data are not collected centrally on how much schools, colleges or universities also choose to spend on information technology from their core budgets, which account for the vast majority of the overall public sector education budget, the figures necessarily understate the overall investment in information technology over the last five years.