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(asked on 4th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money has been spent on the staying put programme in each year since that programme was launched (a) in total and (b) by local authority area.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 10th December 2018

The total amount of funding provided to local authorities to implement Staying Put since its introduction in 2014, and the amount committed for the period of 2019 to 2020, are set out in the table below.

Decisions on funding beyond March 2020 will be subject to the outcome of the next Spending Review.

2014 to 2015

£7.4 millon

2015 to 2016

£14.8 million

2016 to 2017

£22.2 million

2017 to 2018

£22.85 million

2018 to 2019

£23.3 million

2019 to 2020

£23.77 million

Total

£114.32 million

Information on the share of the total funding allocated to each local authority is contained in the annual Grant Determination letters, which are published on GOV.UK. Copies of the letters for the period of 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019 are available at the following hyperlinks:

2016 to 2017: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/625577/staying_put_grant_letter_2016-2017.pdf.

2017 to 2018: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624325/Staying_Put_Grant_letter_2017-18__1_.pdf.

2018 to 2019: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/704816/Staying_Put_grant_letter_to_LAs_2018-19__.pdf.

Copies of the Grant Determination letters for the period of 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 are attached in Annex A and Annex B, respectively.

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