Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the potential financial effect of the proposed changes in the level of per pupil funding on schools in Camberwell and Peckham constituency in each year until 2020-21.

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 Southwark in 2016-17 are found in the following table:

Southwark DSG allocations 2016-17

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 are committed to introducing a national funding formula. The first stage of our two part consultation closed on 17 April. We will publish our response to the first stage of our consultation on a national funding formula for schools shortly. At the same time we will put forward stage two of the consultation, exploring our detailed proposals on the design of the formula. This will include illustrative allocations for all schools and areas. After a full consultation, we will make final decisions and confirm arrangements next year.