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date	03/09/2018
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 he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including additional educational needs funding in the base budget for schools as part of the new funding formula.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Core schools funding is increasing to £43.5 billion by 2020, and within that total the high needs budget is £6 billion this year, the highest on record.</p><p> </p><p>All the evidence shows that pupils from deprived families, those with low prior attainment, those who do not speak English as a first language, and those who start school part-way through the year are most likely to fall behind their peers. The national funding formula protects the £5.9 billion of funding directed towards pupils with additional needs, to help them catch up. This funding is provided to schools through their base budgets. In addition to the schools formula, the pupil premium will provide schools with over £2.4 billion to improve the support provided to children who have been in receipt of free school meals in the last 6 years. Beyond this, the national funding formula for high needs provides funding for local authorities to direct to the most vulnerable children and young people. In 2018-19, the high needs national funding formula totalled £6 billion; £140 million more than in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 15:57:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

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registered interest
date	16/10/2017
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 the new funding formula for schools includes funding for students with high needs; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>On 14 September, we published our decisions on the introduction of a national funding formula for schools (which provides core funding for all mainstream schools), and a national funding formula for high needs (which provides place funding for special schools, and top-up funding for high needs pupils in both special and mainstream schools).</p><p> </p><p>Under the national funding formulae, mainstream schools will be expected to contribute the first £6,000 of additional funding for any pupil on their roll with high needs from their schools block funding. When a school can demonstrate that the costs of additional support required for a pupil with high needs exceed £6,000, the local authority should allocate additional top-up funding from their high needs budget to cover the excess costs. This process is the same as under the previous funding system. This is explained in paragraph 54 of the High Needs funding 2018 to 2019 operational guide, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2018-to-2019</a>. If a school has concerns about the level of funding they receive for their pupils with high needs, it should discuss it with their local authority in the first instance. <strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/10/2017 16:30:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769678

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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 assessment she has made of the level of funding in the new funding formula for schools that have a large number of pupils with additional needs and those that do not.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The national funding formula allocates the majority of funding, 72.9%, through the basic per-pupil allowance, while protecting the funding directed towards children with additional needs, with a total spend of £5.9 billion and overall weighting of 17.8%.</p><p>Funding will be distributed according to the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country. This will direct resources where they are needed most, and provide transparency and predictability for schools.</p><p>The attached table shows the unit values, total funding and proportion of funding for each factor in the formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2017 13:09:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 107487 - attachment.pdf title unit values, total funding and proportion
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew