Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to communicate to the public the value of increases in the education budget.

The department has published the full detail of the school and high needs national funding formulae, which outlines the impact they will have for every local authority. We have also published notional school level allocations showing what each school would attract through the formula. This means that for the first time, everyone can see what the national funding formulae will mean for their school. The published documents can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-for-schools-and-high-needs.

When the department announced the final details of the formulae in September, the former Secretary of State, my right hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) made a statement in the House; we have also written to all hon. Members setting out the details of the formulae and the impact on schools in their constituencies.