Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the real terms net change in funding will be for schools in County Durham under the new national funding formula.

The Department published full details of the school and high needs national funding formulae, and the impact they will have for every local authority here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.

The national funding formula would allocate an additional 2.8% to schools in County Durham, if implemented in full based on 2017-18 pupil data. This represents an increase of £8.0 million. The actual funding that County Durham will receive will be determined each year on the basis of the most recent pupil data available.

As the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has said, the additional £1.3 billion we are allocating to schools funding means that overall funding per pupil across the country will now be maintained in real terms up to 2020.