Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding per (a) primary and (b) secondary school student is provided In (i) Cornwall, (ii) Plymouth, (iii) Torbay, (iv) Devon and (v) in the five local authorities with the highest level of education attainment.

Mainstream schools receive the majority of their core school funding through the schools block of the dedicated schools grant (DSG).

DSG has funding data for Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay and Devon. It does not include funding in respect of the ‘local authorities with the highest level of education attainment’ because there are a number of different ways in which education attainment can be measured. The local authorities which have the highest level of education attainment would depend on which of these measures were used.

The primary and secondary per-pupil funding for the 2024/25 financial year through the schools block of the DSG can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.

The DSG funding excludes the additional funding schools have received through other grants, notably the 2024/25 teachers’ pay additional grant, the 2024/25 teachers’ pensions employer contribution grant and the 2024/25 core schools budget grant.