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Delegated school budgets by individual school

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Next update expected:July 2026

Updates

2nd December 2025

Amended a 2015-16 school number.

16th October 2025
Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation
Accredited official statistics
Data provider
Local Authorities
Data source
Section 52 budget (S52B) data collection
Time period covered
April 2002 to March 2026

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

Delegated school budgets are the amounts of funding that each local authority has allocated directly to each individual school at the beginning of each financial year.

Data collection or calculation

The data requested and provided by local authorities are required under legislation.

Statistical quality

The collection is a 100% survey and as such no estimation of the figures is calculated, and hence there is no sampling error.

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Organisation
Welsh Government
Contact email
stats.finance@gov.wales