Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her assessment is of the adequacy of the funding delivered by the new funding formula for Amherst School, Seal Primary School, Weald Primary School, Riverhead Infants School and Dunton Green Primary School in Sevenoaks.

If the national funding formula were implemented in full, the schools in question would receive the following increases in the funding they attract compared to their baseline, based on 2017-18 data:

Amherst School – 9.7%, or £310 more per pupil

Seal CE Primary School – 8.3%, or £300 more per pupil

Weald Community Primary School – 3.8%, or £142 more per pupil

Riverhead Infants’ School – 3.1%, or £108 more per pupil

Dunton Green Primary School – 8.9%, or £339 more per pupil

For all but one of the above schools, their increases are greater than the national average for primary schools of 3.3%, or £135 per pupil.

Amherst School, Weald Community Primary School and Riverhead Infants’ School will attract their final formula allocation by 2019-20. Seal CE Primary School will attract an increase of 5.2% by 2019-20 and Dunton Green Primary School will attract an increase of 5.0% by 2019-20.

Individual schools’ actual budgets for 2018-19 and 2019-20 will be determined by the local authority, through the local school funding formula.

National funding formula allocations for local authorities and notional allocations for schools is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.