Departmental Reports

Yearly Departmental Reports
Autumn Performance Reports
Department Spending Reviews
The Government's Expenditure Plans
The Teachers Pensions Scheme (England and Wales)
Departmental Resource Accounts

Yearly Departmental Reports

The Department reports set out the Government's Expenditure Plans for the Department for Education and Skills based on the resources allocated in the Spending Reviews.

Departmental Report 2008 (PDF 2.9MB)

Departmental Report 2007 (PDF 1MB)

Departmental Report 2006 (PDF 1MB)

Departmental Report 2005 (PDF 800KB)

Departmental Report 2004 (PDF 700KB)
Correction 1 (DOC 29KB)
Correction 2 (DOC 29KB)

Departmental Report 2003 (PDF 1.1MB)

Autumn Performance Reports

The 2007 Autumn Performance Report outlines progress towards the 2004 Spending Review Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets originally set for the Department for Education and Skills. These PSA targets are now the responsibility of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

The 2003 to 2006 Autumn Performance Reports outline progress towards the 2004 Spending Review Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets set for the Department for Education and Skills

2006 Autumn Performance Report (PDF 681KB)

2005 Autumn Performance Report (PDF 1.1MB)

2004 Autumn Performance Report (PDF 130KB)

2003 Autumn Performance Report (PDF 470KB)

Department Spending Reviews

Spending Review 2004
Spending Reviews take place every two years and set three year spending envelopes for departments. Spending Review 2004 covers financial years 2005-06 to 2007-08.

Departments 2004 Spending Review settlements were announced in the budget on 17 March 2004. The Secretary of State made a statement to the House of Commons on 16 September 2004 giving more detail on the allocations between sectors.

Spending Review 2004 set the Department's PSA targets for 2005-06 to 2007-08. The PSA White Paper was published on 12 July 2004 along side the Spending Review White Paper.

For a list of the Spending Review 2004 PSA targets for the Department of Education and Skills, please see Chapter 2 of the PSA White Paper on the HM Treasury website [opens new browser window].

For an explanation of how each PSA target was measured and how achievement of the target was defined, see the technical notes.

The HM Treasury website contains more details on the 2004 Spending Review and on the 2004 Budget.

Spending Review 2002 - You can view this document on the 2002 Spending Review

Comprehensive spending review 2007 - Value for money delivery agreement
This delivery agreement explains how the Department for children, schools and families will achieve its value for money efficiency gains during the comprehensive spending review 2007 (CSR07) which covers the period 2008-09 to 2010-11.

The document details the major reforms, changes and initiatives the Department intends to undertake in order to achieve its savings ambition.

Download in PDF format (200kb)
Download in Word format (335kb)

DfES Efficiency Technical Note
This Efficiency Technical Note explains how the Department for Education and Skills will monitor and measure the efficiency gains that are achieved across the services funded by the Department between 2005-06 and 2007-08.

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Download in Word format (749kb)

The Government's Expenditure Plans

The Government's Expenditure Plans 2001-02 to 2003-04 and Main Estimates 2001-02 (1.91MB)

This is part of a series of departmental reports and main estimates which, accompanied by the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2001-02, present the Government's expenditure plans for 2001-02 to 2003-04. The plans were published in summary form in the Budget documentation.

The Government's Expenditure Results 1999-00 to 2001-02 (429KB)

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Command of Her Majesty March 1999.

The Government's Expenditure Plans 2000-2001

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