Public Expenditure: Wales
The question
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.
Answered by 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 2025
The published Block Grant Transparency document provides a detailed breakdown and the most recent iteration was published on October 2025: Block Grant Transparency: October 2025 - GOV.UK
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