Annual reports

This report looks at annual education spending in the UK.

In our annual series of reports on education spending, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, we bring together data on education spending per student across the life cycle and provide analysis about the major issues facing different sectors.

Education spending is the second-largest element of public service spending in the UK behind health, representing about £91 billion in 2018–19 in today’s prices or about 4.2% of national income.

Our first annual report on education spending in England provides measures of spending per student in the early years, schools, further education and higher education back to the early 1990s.