Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of maintained secondary schools spent more than their incomes between 2010–11 and 2014–15.

Data on the proportion of maintained secondary schools who spent more than their income over the last seven years is published in the ‘Statistical First Release LA and school expenditure: 2015 to 2016 Financial Year’. The specific data can be found in Table 5 of the spreadsheet which is attached.

In 2015-16 the total revenue balance across all local authority maintained schools was £2.1 billion. This amounts to an average revenue balance in each local authority maintained school of £124,000, which equates to 7.5% on their total revenue income. Between 2010-11 and 2015-16 average revenue balance in all local authority schools rose by £33,647, a rise of 37%.