Educational Visits: Finance

(asked on 14th July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to schools for school trips and residential visits during the cost of living crisis.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 27th July 2022

Schools have the flexibility to make their own decisions on how to prioritise their spending to invest in a range of resources and activities that will best support their staff and pupils, which may include school trips and residential visits. There is no specific funding allocation provided to schools for the purpose of school trips or residential visits. Any costs incurred by the school must be funded from their own budget.

The department continues to monitor schools’ financial health and we recognise that schools are facing cost pressures. This government continues to deliver year on year increases to school funding, with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by the 2024/25 financial year. This is a £7 billion cash increase compared with the 2021/22 financial year.

Increases in funding have been frontloaded to rapidly get money to schools, so that in the 2022/23 financial year alone, core schools funding is increasing by £4 billion compared to the 2021/22 financial year. This means that the total funding allocated to schools is seeing a 7% cash terms per pupil boost in the 2022/23 financial year, compared to the 2021/22 financial year, helping schools to meet the cost pressures that we know they are facing.

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