Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department is making on ensuring that funding is distributed fairly across schools.

The fair distribution of funding is a priority for this Government. A National Funding Formula will ensure that every school is allocated funding fairly and transparently according to need. The first stage of a two part consultation closed last week and we are currently considering the responses. It is important that we get such a significant change right and so we will publish our response to the first stage, and second consultation, later this year.