To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how much funding for shared education has been disseminated to schools over the last four years; and (ii) how does it compare to the projected spending for the same time period.

(i) Over the past 3 years £2,432,721 has been made available to schools through the DSC Shared Education Signature Project, of which £1,750,674 relates to grants to schools and £682,047 relates to support for schools.

(ii) This is less than projected spending for the Project as a result of the impact of industrial action by teaching unions that resulted in most schools that were successful in their funding application not being able to progress to implementation.