National Funding Formula: Schools/High Needs Debate

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Department: Department for Education

National Funding Formula: Schools/High Needs

Helen Goodman Excerpts
Wednesday 14th December 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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I believe that this will be a fair funding formula that will be in everyone’s interests, including those of my hon. Friend’s constituents.

Helen Goodman Portrait Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
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I have a letter from the National Union of Teachers, which is extremely alarmed that pupils in Bishop Auckland will lose £452 over the Parliament. Will the Secretary of State tell me what will happen in my constituency? She has reassured London MPs and the home counties. In the interests of intellectual honesty, will she say who are the losers out of her funding formula?