Asked by: Suella Braverman (Conservative - Fareham and Waterlooville)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional funding for teachers' pay increases.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
The overall core schools budget is increasing by £3.2 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, meaning the core schools budget will total over £64.8 billion compared to almost £61.6 billion in the 2024/25 financial year. This includes the £2.3 billion announced at the Autumn Budget 2024 and over £930 million being provided to support schools and high needs settings with the increases to employer National Insurance contributions from April 2025.
As set out in the written evidence, the department is expecting schools to be able to fund awards of 2.8% from the funding we are already giving to them. That will mean using a combination of the additional investment announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, alongside making use of their existing funds. The government has been clear that departmental settlements for the 2025/26 financial year will need to fund the next round of public sector pay awards.
Asked by: Suella Braverman (Conservative - Fareham and Waterlooville)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the distance is to the nearest selective school from the centre of each of the towns and cities in England with a population over 75,000; and for those such towns and cities in England for which that distance is less than 10 miles, how many selective schools are within 10 miles of that town or city centre.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The requested information can be found in the table below:
Distances from major towns and cities in England to the nearest state-funded selective school | ||||
Town / City | Distance to Nearest Grammar School (miles) | Number of Grammar Schools within 10 miles | ||
Barnsley | 13.3 | 0 | ||
Basildon | 7.9 | 3 | ||
Basingstoke | 13.9 | 0 | ||
Bath | 26.1 | 0 | ||
Bedford | 24.2 | 0 | ||
Birkenhead | 1.1 | 7 | ||
Birmingham | 1.2 | 10 | ||
Blackburn | 9.6 | 1 | ||
Blackpool | 18.4 | 0 | ||
Bolton | 9.2 | 1 | ||
Bournemouth | 2.3 | 4 | ||
Bracknell | 8.9 | 6 | ||
Bradford | 5.8 | 3 | ||
Brighton and Hove | 28.2 | 0 | ||
Bristol | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Burnley | 6.6 | 2 | ||
Burton upon Trent | 18.6 | 0 | ||
Bury | 7.2 | 1 | ||
Cambridge | 35.2 | 0 | ||
Carlisle | 17.6 | 0 | ||
Chatham | 0.4 | 14 | ||
Chelmsford | 0.4 | 2 | ||
Cheltenham | 1.7 | 5 | ||
Chester | 11.8 | 0 | ||
Chesterfield | 29.3 | 0 | ||
Colchester | 0.7 | 2 | ||
Coventry | 10.6 | 0 | ||
Crawley | 16.6 | 0 | ||
Darlington | 26.6 | 0 | ||
Derby | 28.5 | 0 | ||
Doncaster | 16.4 | 0 | ||
Dudley | 6.3 | 9 | ||
Eastbourne | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Exeter | 16.7 | 0 | ||
Gateshead | 50.4 | 0 | ||
Gillingham | 0.9 | 14 | ||
Gloucester | 0.6 | 7 | ||
Grimsby | 11.0 | 0 | ||
Guildford | 17.0 | 0 | ||
Halifax | 1.4 | 3 | ||
Harlow | 11.5 | 0 | ||
Harrogate | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Hartlepool | 40.4 | 0 | ||
Hastings | 16.8 | 0 | ||
Hemel Hempstead | 7.2 | 3 | ||
High Wycombe | 0.9 | 10 | ||
Huddersfield | 5.9 | 3 | ||
Ipswich | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Kingston upon Hull | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Leeds | 8.1 | 1 | ||
Leicester | 19.0 | 0 | ||
Lincoln | 15.9 | 0 | ||
Liverpool | 2.7 | 7 | ||
London | 5.7 | 7 | ||
Luton | 14.1 | 0 | ||
Maidstone | 0.5 | 10 | ||
Manchester | 3.4 | 7 | ||
Mansfield | 25.3 | 0 | ||
Middlesbrough | 32.5 | 0 | ||
Milton Keynes | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne | 50.6 | 0 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 2.1 | 1 | ||
Northampton | 17.4 | 0 | ||
Norwich | 53.9 | 0 | ||
Nottingham | 21.7 | 0 | ||
Nuneaton | 13.6 | 0 | ||
Oldham | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Oxford | 19.1 | 0 | ||
Peterborough | 14.5 | 0 | ||
Plymouth | 0.4 | 3 | ||
Poole | 2.1 | 4 | ||
Portsmouth | 33.8 | 0 | ||
Preston | 15.0 | 0 | ||
Reading | 0.6 | 2 | ||
Redditch | 6.9 | 4 | ||
Rochdale | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Rotherham | 22.8 | 0 | ||
Salford | 3.0 | 7 | ||
Scunthorpe | 13.2 | 0 | ||
Sheffield | 24.0 | 0 | ||
Shrewsbury | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Slough | 0.8 | 7 | ||
Solihull | 5.4 | 6 | ||
South Shields | 58.1 | 0 | ||
Southampton | 20.2 | 0 | ||
Southend-on-Sea | 0.8 | 4 | ||
Southport | 17.8 | 0 | ||
St Albans | 8.6 | 1 | ||
St Helens | 8.6 | 1 | ||
Stevenage | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Stockport | 6.2 | 7 | ||
Stockton-on-Tees | 31.0 | 0 | ||
Stoke-on-Trent | 1.3 | 1 | ||
Sunderland | 53.5 | 0 | ||
Sutton Coldfield | 0.1 | 7 | ||
Swindon | 23.5 | 0 | ||
Telford | 6.5 | 2 | ||
Wakefield | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Walsall | 0.4 | 8 | ||
Warrington | 9.8 | 2 | ||
Watford | 7.6 | 5 | ||
West Bromwich | 2.8 | 11 | ||
Weston-Super-Mare | 42.2 | 0 | ||
Wigan | 13.0 | 0 | ||
Woking | 12.6 | 0 | ||
Wolverhampton | 1.2 | 3 | ||
Worcester | 14.8 | 0 | ||
Worthing | 35.6 | 0 | ||
York | 22.2 | 0 | ||
Notes: | ||||
Distances are calculated based on the location of the town centre according to Google Maps | ||||
Major towns and cities are from the 2016 ONS list based on towns and cities in England with a resident or workday population of more than 75,000 in the 2011 census. | ||||
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Asked by: Suella Braverman (Conservative - Fareham and Waterlooville)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils eligible for free school meals took up a place at each university in each year since 2005-06.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Data showing the numbers of students eligible for free school meals, going to individual universities, are not published by the department.
Destination measures data are published and show the overall percentage of key stage 5 students[1] eligible for free school meals[2] going into sustained[3] destinations at higher education institutions. The data also include the percentage going into sustained destinations at Russell group universities and Oxford and Cambridge.
Destination measures data for students eligible for free school meals are published for the years 2010/11 to 2013/14 and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations
[1] Key stage 5 students are those entered for A level or other equivalent level 3 qualifications
[2] Eligible for free school meals at any time in year 11
[3] Sustained for 6 months (October to March)