Schools: Easington

(asked on 21st January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding in real terms has been allocated to schools in Easington constituency in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 29th January 2020

Funding for schools is given to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), which in turn distribute this money to schools in their area through their own local formulae. The following table outlines the schools block DSG allocations for Durham County Council since 2015-16 in cash terms. Prior to the introduction of the National Funding Formula (NFF), schools block allocations were only calculated at local authority level.

Schools block DSG allocations for Durham

Funding per pupil (£)1

Total schools block (£)

2015-16

£4,641

£287.1 million

2016-17

£4,649

£288.8 million

2017-18

£4,674

£293.0 million

2018-19

£4,694

£298.6 million

2019-20

£4,758

£306.1 million

2020-21

£4,937

£319.5 million

Since 2018-19, schools block allocations have been calculated through the NFF, based on individual schools’ characteristics. The following table outlines in cash terms notional NFF allocations for schools in Easington in 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.

NFF allocations for Easington

Funding per pupil (£)

Total cash funding (£)

NFF 2018-192

£4,817

£51.6 million

NFF 2019-202

£4,862

£52.8 million

NFF 2020-212

£5,012

£54.7 million

To smooth the transition to the NFF, local authorities have continued to be responsible for designing the distribution of funding in their areas in 2018-19 through to 2020-21. The actual amount that schools receive may be different from the amount they are attracting through the NFF. Local authorities set their local formula in consultation with local schools. The Department will now move to a single national formula as soon as possible to complete our reforms to make the funding system fair and equitable for every school in the country.

1 The schools block unit of funding has been calculated by dividing the local authority’s total schools block allocation.

2 Notional NFF allocations for individual schools were calculated based on available pupil data at the time, which was pupil data from the previous year. Final allocations given to local authorities were calculated based on updated pupil data. The figures in these tables are therefore not directly comparable.

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