Schools: Finance
(asked on 22nd November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was the education services grant to local authorities in (1) 2013–14, (2) 2014–15, (3) 2015–16, and (4) 2016–17.
The table below shows the education services grants (ESG) allocated to local authorities in each financial year from 2013-2014 to 2016-2017:
Education services grant allocated to local authorities in England | |
Financial Year | Allocation (£ millions) |
2013-2014 | 799.46 |
2014-2015 | 717.12 |
2015-2016 | 563.10 |
2016-2017 | 496.94 |
The removal of the ESG as of September 2017 was announced at the 2015 Spending Review – there was a note to this effect in the attached document (attachment 1).
The note states that the rationale for the removal was “making around £600 million savings from the ESG and supporting schools to realise efficiencies” and “Savings of around £600 million will be made on the ESG, including phasing out the additional funding schools receive through the ESG.”
Data sources:
2013-14 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant.
2014-15 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2014-to-2015.
2015-16 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-2015-to-2016.
2016-17 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-services-grant-esg-2016-to-2017.