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Health spending will have increased by more than 40 per cent from 2010 to 2025 while education budgets will have gone up by less than three per cent, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said today.
The IFS said the updated spending figures following Rishi Sunak's Budget yesterday showed there has been a 'remarkable lack of priority afforded to the education system since 2010'.
The influential think tank questioned how the education funding levels are 'consistent' with the Government's 'levelling up' agenda.
Downing Street said the Government 'makes no apologies' for boosting health spending, insisting it is 'something the public want to see'.
Health spending will have increased by more than 40 per cent between 2010 and 2025 while educations spending will go up by less than three per cent
The IFS said the updated spending figures following Rishi Sunak's Budget yesterday showed there has been a 'remarkable lack of priority afforded to the education system since 2010'
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, said this morning that Whitehall departmental funding increases contained within the Budget are 'real and substantial'.
He said no
