Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned funding allocations for Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB are in each year for which figures are available.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Funding allocations for the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) for 2025/26 were recently published online by NHS England alongside 2025/26 NHS Planning Guidance. The following table shows the funding allocations for the Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB for 2025/26:
Allocation | 2025/26 amount |
ICB core programme | £3,124,548,000 |
ICB delegated specialised services | £491,587,000 |
ICB primary medical care | £312,120,000 |
ICB pharmacy, ophthalmic, and dental services | £151,387,000 |
ICB running cost allowance | £21,741,000 |
Funding beyond 2025/26 will be determined following Phase 2 of the Spending Review, which will conclude later this year.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the planned funding allocations for (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) Solihull Borough Council are in each year for which figures are available.
Answered by Jim McMahon - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
As part of the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement on 18 December 2024 the government published the latest Core Spending Power figures which are available here.
Included within the tables are figures for allocations dating back to 2015. Due to changes in the function and financing of local government, comparable data is not available prior to 2015-16.
Funding allocations from future settlements are subject to the outcome of future Spending Reviews. The government is committed to providing a multi-year funding settlement starting in 2026-27.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out planned funding allocations for (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools in Birmingham and Solihull broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency for each year for which figures are available.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
Core funding allocations for nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools are distributed through the dedicated schools grant (DSG).
Annual DSG allocations are published at local authority level. Allocations are not available by constituency, since local authorities are responsible for distributing the funding they receive locally through their own local formulae.
For mainstream schools, the DSG allocations show the total amount of funding each local authority receives. This is also split down into its constituent parts: per pupil funding for primary and secondary pupils respectively, premises funding, and growth funding.
For early years, the DSG allocations show the total amount of funding each local authority receives through the early years block. The early years block comprises of funding for each of the early years entitlements, as well as additional funding for early years pupil premium, disability access fund and maintained nursery school supplementary funding. The early years block comprises of funding for each of the early years entitlements, as well as additional funding for early years pupil premium, disability access fund and maintained nursery school supplementary funding. Early years allocations for the government funded entitlements are based on an hourly rate and the number of children taking up the entitlements. The hourly rates each local authority receives are calculated using the early years national funding formulae and are published annually. Further details on early years funding rates for 2025/26 financial year can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-funding-2025-to-2026.
The early years budget is demand led, and the early years block allocations in the DSG are adjusted based on census and headcount data according to the take-up of the entitlement hours.
The DSG publications for each year going back to 2020 can be found at the following addresses:
2025/26:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2025-to-2026.
2024/25:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.
2023/24:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.
2022/23:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.
2021/22:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022.
2020/21:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what annual forecast she has made of the number of new social homes to be built in Birmingham and Solihull.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The government is committed to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.
We will set out details of new investment to succeed the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme at the Spending Review.
This new investment will deliver a mix of homes for sub-market rent and homeownership, with a particular focus on delivering homes for Social Rent.