Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding per pupil in mainstream schools was in (a) Basingstoke constituency, (b) Hampshire, and (c) England in each year since 2010.

The department cannot provide comparable funding back to 2010 due to the changes in the funding system since that time. The scope of the per pupil funding before and after the 2018/19 financial year are not directly comparable. In particular, funding for the central services provided by local authorities was split out from the schools block funding in the 2018/19 financial year, and instead funded separately through the central school services block from that year onwards.

We have therefore provided the links to the published dedicated schools grant (DSG) tables from the 2018/19 to 2024/25 financial years. In these tables we provide average per-pupil funding amounts, split by primary and secondary phase, for each local authority and at national level.

As the DSG is allocated at local authority level, DSG allocations are not available broken down to the level of individual constituencies. The individual allocations that schools within Basingstoke constituency receive are determined, each year, by the local funding formula set by Hampshire local authority.

Links to the published DSG tables from the 2018/19 financial year onward are below:

2018/19: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.

2019/20: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020.

2020/21: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021.

2021/22: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022.

2022/23: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.

2023/24: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.

2024/25: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.