Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who were non-high needs and aged between 16 and 19 years old received the band (a) five and (b) 4a national funding rate in the 2022-23 academic year.

The department does not hold the information in the format requested, or publish data split by funding band.

The department identifies high needs students in the Individual Learner Record and School Census data to allocate the appropriate funding. When calculating the number of funded students per band, the department does not distinguish between those with high needs and others, for this funding stream.

Therefore, the figures below include students in both high needs and non-high needs categories.

In 2022/2023, the total number of funded students in 16 to 19 allocations were:

• Band 5: 999,779
• Band 4*: 140,943

*The allocations figures recorded by the department do not separate the number of funded students in Bands 4a and 4b, since this is not necessary for the calculation, as both bands attract the same funding rate.