Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the pupil premium allocated to a school will be included in the calculation her Department makes to ensure no school will see a cut in funding as a consequence of the national funding formula.

The pupil premium remains a separate grant to the national funding formula (NFF). Illustrative NFF allocations do not therefore include pupil premium funding. The pupil premium totals nearly £2.5 billion in 2017-18 and will continue to be protected at current rates alongside the NFF, to support the children who need it.