Secondary Education: Bradford East

(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2022 to Question 120797 on Secondary Education: Regional Planning and Development, what estimate he has made of the amount and proportion of the Government’s (a) additional £4.7 billion by 2024-25 for the core schools budget in England and (b) new package of £1.8 billion over the SR21 period to support education recovery from the covid-19 outbreak that will be allocated directly to schools in Bradford East constituency.


Answered by
Robin Walker Portrait
Robin Walker
This question was answered on 25th February 2022

Schools in Bradford East are attracting £130 million in total in the 2022/23 financial year through the schools national funding formula (NFF), a 3.5% cash increase over the 2021/22 financial year. This represents an increase of 2.6% in per pupil funding. On top of this funding through the NFF, additional funding through the Schools Supplementary Grant will provide extra funding to all schools in Bradford East. The breakdown of this will be published in due course. The indicative 2022/23 financial year schools supplementary grant figure for the Bradford local authority is £13.8 million or £156 per pupil on average.

We are only able to confirm NFF funding allocations for the 2022/23 financial year as the NFF is updated annually.

We have committed an additional £1.8 billion of recovery funding in the recent Spending Review to support young people to catch up on missed learning, taking overall direct investment in education recovery to almost £5 billion.

From this additional funding, a £1 billion recovery premium will continue for a further two academic years, 2022/23 and 2023/24. Primary schools will continue to benefit from an additional circa £145 per eligible pupil, and the amount per eligible pupil in secondary schools is expected to nearly double. In broad terms, this will mean a typical secondary school could attract approximately £70,000 a year.

The recovery premium allocations for individual schools in the 2021/22 academic year, including those in East Bradford, have been published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-recovery-premium-funding-allocations. The recovery premium allocations for the 2022/23 academic year will be published in due course.

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