Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effects on the worst funded schools of adjusting the percentage applied in the calculation of the Minimum Funding Guarantee.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The minimum funding guarantee protects schools from significant changes in their funding, limiting the year-on-year reductions in a school’s pupil-led funding to 1.5%.
The minimum funding guarantee for schools will continue to be set at minus 1.5% per pupil for 2016-17. We have committed to making funding fairer, but we cannot comment on the detail of proposals prior to the outcome of the Spending Review.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount of pupil premium paid was not spent in the year it was paid in each of the last four years; what proportion of the total spending on pupil premium that amounted to in each of those years; and what estimate she has made of the total amount of pupil premium carried over in each of those years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The department does not collect information from schools and academies on the amounts of the pupil premium spent in any given year nor the amount carried forward to future years.
Local Authorities are obliged to provide an annual assurance that all pupil premium funding paid to them has been distributed appropriately. Schools and academies are also required to publish how much pupil premium funding they have received; what they have spent this on; and what impact this has had on the attainment of those pupils under the scope of the grant. This information is published annually, on their websites.
Whilst we do not collect the specific information requested, we do publish the pupil premium allocations themselves and they are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2015-to-2016-allocations
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list all local authority areas in the (a) North West, (b) North East, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber, (d) West Midlands and (e) East Midlands from which 25 per cent or more of pupils from maintained schools secured admission to Russell Group universities, showing in each case whether the authority is (i) selective, (ii) partially selective and (iii) comprehensive for the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by David Laws
The information requested is published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the top 20 local authority areas by proportion of pupils from maintained schools gaining admission to Russell Group universities, showing whether each authority is (a) selective (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive for the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by David Laws
The information requested is published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations