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1697456

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review the current funding formula for schools to ensure that it is adjusted for (a) inflation and (b) increases in the cost of living.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	19682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The overall core school budget will total £60.7 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, the highest ever level in real terms per pupil. School funding is therefore set to have risen by £11 billion next year, compared with 2021/2022.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/03/2024 16:45:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1696427

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating a portion of the savings in direct schools grants from home education to local authorities to provide exam centres.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	18913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The department allocates school funding to local authorities through the dedicated schools grant, on the basis of pupil numbers in the preceding autumn census. That some children are home educated does not, therefore, lead to unallocated funding. The department does not have current plans to fund exam centres for children who are home educated, but all funding is kept under careful review. Local authorities do have some flexibility to support children and young people who are home educated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/03/2024 15:54:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1695297

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the funding required to maintain the school estate.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	18152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>Well-maintained, safe school buildings are a priority for the department in order to ensure that they support a high-quality education for all children. The department has allocated over £15 billion since 2015 for keeping schools safe and operational, including £1.8 billion in 2023/24. In addition, the school rebuilding programme is transforming poor condition buildings at over 500 schools.</p><p>​It is the responsibility of those who run schools, such as academy trusts, local authorities and voluntary-aided school bodies, to manage the safety and maintenance of their schools based on local knowledge of their estates. They decide how to use annual funding provided, or when to apply to central programmes. Where there are serious issues with buildings that cannot be managed independently the department provides additional support on a case by case basis.</p><p>This government introduced the Condition Data Collection (CDC), the first ever comprehensive survey of the school estate and one of the largest data collection programmes of its kind in Europe. Thanks to our evidence led approach, following the James Review of Capital in 2011, this government has been able to allocate capital funding based on consistent data on condition need. Almost all government funded schools in England were visited as part of the CDC programme between 2017 and 2019. Key findings from the CDC programme can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60af7cbbe90e071b54214c82/Condition_of_School_Buildings_Survey_CDC1_-_key_findings_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60af7cbbe90e071b54214c82/Condition_of_School_Buildings_Survey_CDC1_-_key_findings_report.pdf</a>.</p><p>This reported a total modelled remediation cost of £11.4 billion to repair or replace building components rated less than good (Grade A), which included elements which were rated as satisfactory.</p><p>Significant capital investment has been provided since the CDC was carried out. Condition Data Collection 2 (CDC2) started in 2021 and will complete in 2026. It will provide the department with an improved and up to date evidence base on building condition to inform future capital policy and programmes. Early indications from our CDC2 data collection to date, and feedback from responsible bodies, showed that in almost every case where a D grade component was identified in the CDC1 report, it has since been addressed.</p><p>Funding for capital programmes up to 2024/25 comes from the department’s overall £19 billion capital budget set at the 2021 Spending Review. Capital budgets beyond 2024/25 will be determined through a Spending Review, in the normal way.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/03/2024 12:54:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1692865

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much additional capital funding has been spent in each of the local authorities with a Dedicated schools grant: very high deficit intervention to support delivery of the agreement where this forms part of the agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	16446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>The Safety Valve programme targets the local authorities with the highest Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) deficits. The programme requires the local authorities involved to develop substantial plans for reform to their high needs systems, with support and challenge from the department, to rapidly place them on a sustainable footing. If the local authorities can demonstrate sufficiently that their DSG management plans create lasting sustainability and are effective for children and young people, including reaching an in-year balance as quickly as possible, then the department will enter into an agreement to hold the authority to account for delivery.</p><p>Through the agreements, the authorities are subsequently held to account for their reform and savings targets via regular reporting to the department. The department will help the local authorities with additional revenue funding over time to contribute to their historic deficits, but this is contingent on delivery of the reforms in the agreements.</p><p>Capital funding is a necessary feature of many local authorities’ DSG management plans, in cases where investment in local infrastructure will result in the availability of more appropriate provision and subsequent revenue savings. Local authorities with Safety Valve agreements are therefore invited to apply for additional high needs capital funding, to be provided as a one-off ‘top-up’ to their high needs provision capital allocations (HNPCA).</p><p>Out of the 34 local authorities that currently have Safety Valve agreements, we have allocated additional capital funding to 22. The funding allocated to these local authorities is set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional capital funding allocated through the Safety Valve programme</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury</p></td><td><p>£3,780,514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p>£1,220,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>£3,616,603</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p>£3,851,165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent</p></td><td><p>£7,530,904</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p>£6,962,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees</p></td><td><p>£8,200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton</p></td><td><p>£8,270,367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td><td><p>£4,323,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>£8,558,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>£3,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>£9,903,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>£11,290,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>£7,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medway</p></td><td><p>£7,188,479</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>£3,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p>£9,500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool</p></td><td><p>£6,153,346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td><td><p>£2,918,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Tyneside</p></td><td><p>£4,681,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wokingham</p></td><td><p>£6,332,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£131,280,684</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 12 local authorities that did not receive additional capital either did not apply or did not successfully demonstrate to the department that capital support was necessary to support their DSG management plans.</p><p>In order to receive additional capital funding, local authorities’ proposals must demonstrate how investment would align to the reform plans and savings targets in their Safety Valve agreements. Proposals also need to show how capital plans will meet identified gaps in provision and improve the local provision offer. Once funding is allocated, local authorities have appropriate flexibility to make sensible adjustments to their plans, reflecting that the statutory duty to provide sufficient school places remains with the local authority.</p><p>6 local authorities are currently in Safety Valve negotiations with the department and have also been invited to apply for capital funding. The outcome of those negotiations and any additional capital funding being allocated will be communicated to local authorities shortly, and additional capital funding will be paid to local authorities as part of their 2024/25 HNPCA allocations later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 16447 question first answered 08/03/2024 11:01:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1692203

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help mitigate the impact of inflation on real terms funding received by schools.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	16010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to providing a world class education system for all children and has invested significantly in education to achieve that.</p><p>School funding is rising to £59.6 billion, from this April, meaning schools will be funded at their highest ever level in real terms per pupil. The government invested an additional £2 billion for both this year and next, announced at the 2022 Autumn Statement. As well as extra funding for the 2023 teachers’ pay award, ensuring it was properly funded.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/03/2024 15:59:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1671833

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the analysis of school funding published by School Cuts; and whether his Department plans to increase funding for schools in 2024-2025.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
	uin	3003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>This Government has continually prioritised school funding.</p><p>Funding for schools will total over £57.7 billion this year – a rise of over £3.9 billion compared to 2022-23, on top of a £4 billion cash increase last year. That is a 16% increase in just two years.</p><p>Funding for schools in 2024-25 will increase again, to £59.6 billion – the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.</p><p>The Department for Education provides additional support for schools, including an extensive programme to help them make the most of the funding available to them.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 27/11/2023 15:44:39 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1669528

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will allocate additional funding for high needs provision in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	1477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>The majority of high needs funding from the department is allocated to local authorities, as they are responsible for allocating that funding to schools to support pupils with complex needs. The department has substantially increased high needs funding in recent years and has announced a further increase of £440 million for the 2024/25 financial year, which will bring the total high needs budget to over £10.5 billion, an increase of over 60% from the 2019/20 allocations. This funding will help local authorities and schools with the increasing costs of supporting children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 23/11/2023 12:13:30 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1664894

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from Susan Acland-Hood to the Chair of the Education Select Committee on National Funding Formula Update, published on 6 October 2023, for what reason was there a miscalculation in the total amount of funding allocated to schools for the 2024-25 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	202588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department informed Local Authorities and academy trusts of the republished schools National Funding Formula (NFF) on 6 October 2023, alongside the publication of the corrected NFF allocations. In the initial NFF calculations for 2024-2025, there was an error processing forecast pupil numbers, which meant that the overall cost of the core schools budget using the announced schools NFF arrangements would be 0.62% greater than allocated. The Permanent Secretary has taken full responsibility for the error made by officials and has written to both the Secretary of State and the Education Select Committee to apologise.</p><p>Since identifying the error, officials have reviewed other funding models to confirm that a similar issue has not occurred elsewhere. The Secretary of State has asked the Department's Permanent Secretary to conduct an independent and external review of the quality assurance process surrounding the calculation of the NFF. This will provide external and independent scrutiny and will be led by Peter Wyman CBE. Officials will ensure that any recommendations from the review are applied to other allocation calculations done by the Department, not just the schools NFF.</p><p>The schools NFF calculations are mainly performed using R and RStudio. R is an open source programming language which is widely used for data analysis and processing across the public and private sectors, and RStudio is an open source development environment for using R.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 202596 202597 question first answered 25/10/2023 15:59:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1664896

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from Susan Acland-Hood to the Chair of the Education Select Committee on National Funding Formula Update, published on 6 October 2023, what is the (a) scope and (b) terms of reference for the internal review into the miscalculation in the total amount of funding allocated to schools for the 2024-25 financial year; and when will the review conclude.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	202590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education has asked the Department’s Permanent Secretary to conduct a formal review of the quality assurance process surrounding the calculation of the schools National Funding Formula figures. This will provide external and independent scrutiny. Peter Wyman CBE will lead this review, and will be supported in his work by an expert panel drawn from outside the Department. The timing and terms of reference of the review have yet to be finalised, but the expectation is that it will conclude before Christmas.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/10/2023 14:51:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1664897

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from Susan Acland-Hood to the Chair of the Education Select Committee on National Funding Formula Update, published on 6 October 2023, whether she plans to publish the findings of her Department's internal review into the miscalculation in the total amount of funding allocated to schools for the 2024-25 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	202591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The Permanent Secretary has taken full responsibility for the error made by officials and has written to both the Secretary of State and the Education Select Committee to apologise.</p><p>The Secretary of State has asked the Department’s Permanent Secretary to conduct a formal review of the quality assurance process surrounding the calculation of the schools national funding formula (NFF) figures. Peter Wyman CBE, the chair of the board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, will lead this process, and he will be supported in his work by an expert panel drawn from outside the Department. This is not an internal review; it will provide external and independent scrutiny. As such, the Department does not plan to also invite the National Audit Office to investigate the schools NFF calculation error. The findings and recommendations of the review will be made public.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 202592 202594 question first answered 24/10/2023 14:40:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson