Schools: Birmingham

(asked on 29th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what real-terms funding she has allocated to schools in Birmingham for each of the next five years.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 6th July 2016

Nationally we have protected the core schools budget in real terms to the end of the current Spending Review period, enabling a per-pupil protection for the dedicated schools grant so that the money available for our schools will increase as pupil numbers rise.

The DSG allocations for Birmingham in 2016-17 are found in the table below:

Birmingham DSG allocations 2016-17

2016-17 Schools Block Unit of Funding (SBUF) (£)

2016-17 Schools Block (£million)

5,218.42

888.62

Allocations for future years will be announced in due course.

We believe that schools should be funded on a consistent and predictable basis, which is why we have proposed to introduce a National Funding Formula. The first stage of our two part consultation closed on 17 April and we are currently considering all the responses. We will be launching the second stage of the consultation, which will include illustrative allocations for all schools and local areas, later in the year.

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