Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of where in her Department's table of 151 local authority funding positions West Sussex will rank in each of the next three years.

Dedicated Schools Grant allocations for 2017-18 have been confirmed and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.

How much funding local authorities will receive in 2018-19 and 2019-20 is subject to the national funding formula, which is currently in its second stage of consultation.

As a result of our proposals, in the first year, West Sussex would see an overall increase in schools funding of 1.9% and funding for high needs pupils would be protected at current funding levels. Illustrative allocations for the second year of the national funding formula have not been calculated, but by the time of full implementation of the formula, West Sussex schools would see gains of 3.5% overall.