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<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>
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