Written Question·Treasury·UIN 86699

Public Expenditure: Wales

Tabled: 30 October 2025
Answered: 4 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Ben Lake

Plaid CymruCeredigion Preseli

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the total amount of funding to be allocated to the Welsh Government through the Barnett Formula following the the full rollout of free childcare in England.

Answer

James Murray
The Barnett formula is applied when departmental budgets change – not when departments announce how they are spending their budgets or when policy is delivered. The Barnett formula was applied in the usual way following Spending Review 2025The published B...

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