Schools: Finance

(asked on 14th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure that the Government increases its funding for local authorities sufficiently to ensure that no school will receive a cut in funding as a result of the imposition of the national funding formula.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th July 2017

We are providing an additional £1.3 billion for schools across 2018-19 and 2019-20 to support the introduction of the national funding formula from April next year. Along with the funding we had already committed for schools at the 2015 Spending Review, this will mean the core schools budget rises from just under £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion by 2020. The additional investment means that, over the next two years, we will be able to provide for a 0.5% a year per pupil increase for every school. Full details of the arrangements are set out at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/justine-greening-statement-to-parliament-on-school-funding.

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