Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has assessed the extent to which schools are using core budgets to meet the costs of statutory and essential services.

The department has published the ‘Schools’ costs: technical note’ (SCTN) which provides national-level assessments of school cost pressures, including those relating to teaching staff, support staff, special educational needs and disabilities provision, and energy. This year’s SCTN publication and previous editions are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-costs-technical-note.