Schools: Finance

(asked on 5th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding for the schools budget.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 13th July 2018

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State frequently meets Treasury Ministers, including my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to discuss matters of shared interest.

The Government has made a significant extra investment of £1.3 billion in the core schools budget across 2018-19 and 2019-20, over and above the budget announced at the 2015 spending review. This means that funding will be maintained in real terms per pupil.

Funding for the average primary school class today is £132,000, £8,000 more in real terms than in 2008. Those same pupils will see funding of £171,000 when they move to secondary school, a real terms rise of £10,000 compared to a decade ago.

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