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1586471

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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, whether she plans to increase funding for schools.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	147268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>​The 2022 Autumn Statement announced an additional £2 billion for schools, in addition to the funding announced as part of the 2021 Spending Review.​</p><p>​Taking the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations and the additional funding announced in the Autumn Statement 2022 together, core schools funding, which includes funding for both mainstream schools and high needs, is increasing by £3.5 billion in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23. The core schools budget will total £57.3 billion in 2023/24 and £58.8 billion in 2024/25.​</p><p>​The Institute of Fiscal Studies have said that this additional funding will fully cover expected increases in school costs up to 2024 and will take per pupil spending back to at least 2010 levels in real terms, meaning 2024/25 will be the highest ever level of spending on schools in real terms per pupil.​</p><p>​The additional funding will be allocated to mainstream schools through the new Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) in 2023/24. This will be on top of schools’ core funding allocations.​</p><p>​A typical primary school with 200 pupils will receive approximately £35,000 in additional funding through the MSAG, and a typical secondary school with 900 pupils will receive approximately £200,000.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/02/2023 15:53:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1568315

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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, what steps she is taking to promote the financial sustainability of schools with falling pupil rolls.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	126835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The 2022 Autumn Statement has provided an additional increase in the core schools’ budget of £2.3 billion for both financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25.</p><p>Taking the Dedicated Schools Grant allocations and the additional funding announced in the 2022 Autumn Statement together, core schools funding is increasing by £3.5 billion in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23. This takes the total core schools budget for 2023/24 to £57.3 billion. The core schools budget will total £58.8 billion in 2024/25.</p><p>The ‘lagged’ funding system in the schools National Funding Formula, where schools are funded on the basis of their pupil numbers in the previous October census, helps to give schools more certainty over funding levels. This aids their planning, and is particularly important in giving schools that see year on year reductions in their pupil numbers time to re-organise their staffing and costs.</p><p>Local Authorities are also allocated growth funding, which they can use to support schools with falling rolls. This funding can be used to support good and outstanding schools with falling rolls where local planning data shows that the surplus places will be needed with the next three financial years. In 2022/23, 24 out of 150 Local Authorities chose to have falling rolls funds.</p><p>The Department has consulted on changes to the role of the Local Authority in managing pupil growth, and falling rolls, as part of our consultation ‘Implementing the Direct National Funding Formula’. This included proposals on allowing some additional flexibility on how Local Authorities can operate their falling rolls funds.</p><p>The Department will publish the Government response to this consultation in spring 2023.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/01/2023 12:36:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1566938

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
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, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of pupil funding in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
tabling member constituency	Sedgefield
tabling member printed	Paul Howell
uin	903069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Taking the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations and the additional funding announced in the Autumn Statement together, core schools funding is increasing by £3.5 billion in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23. By 2024/25, the core schools budget will total £58.8 billion, the highest level of investment in real terms per-pupil on record.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/01/2023 16:53:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4830 label Biography information for Paul Howell

1563589

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
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 will hold discussions with head teachers on the financial needs of schools before the Budget on 15 March.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	114710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>Department officials and Ministers continue to meet regularly with education and childcare sector leaders, unions and other representative bodies to discuss a wide range of early years, school, further education and higher education policy issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 114708 114712 114714 114715 question first answered 11/01/2023 09:54:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1550536

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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 pressures on schools and their ability to deliver full-time education.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	108248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Association of School and College Leader’s survey findings were published in October 2022. In November, the 2022 Autumn Statement announced additional investment in schools. As a result, the core schools budget will increase by £2 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25, over and above totals announced in the 2021 Autumn Budget and Spending Review. This year, schools' funding is already £4 billion higher than last year. The Autumn Statement means it will rise by another £3.5 billion, on top of that, next year. Taken together, that means a 15% increase in funding in two years.</p><p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies have noted this additional funding will fully cover expected increases in school costs up to 2024 and will take spending per pupil back to at least 2010 levels in real terms. This means 2024/25 will be the highest ever level of spending on schools in real terms per pupil. It will enable head teachers to continue to concentrate funding in the areas that positively impact educational attainment. This includes high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most.</p><p>The Department recognises that every school’s circumstances are different. Where schools are in financial difficulty, they should contact their Local Authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 108249 question first answered 19/12/2022 16:11:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1550537

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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 he has made of the implications for his policies on school budgets of the Association of School and College Leaders October 2022 survey findings that (a) 58 per cent of respondents are considering/likely to reduce teaching staff and increase class sizes, (b) 43 per cent were considering reducing curriculum options and (c) 55 per cent were considering reducing the number of teaching assistants.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	108249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Association of School and College Leader’s survey findings were published in October 2022. In November, the 2022 Autumn Statement announced additional investment in schools. As a result, the core schools budget will increase by £2 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25, over and above totals announced in the 2021 Autumn Budget and Spending Review. This year, schools' funding is already £4 billion higher than last year. The Autumn Statement means it will rise by another £3.5 billion, on top of that, next year. Taken together, that means a 15% increase in funding in two years.</p><p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies have noted this additional funding will fully cover expected increases in school costs up to 2024 and will take spending per pupil back to at least 2010 levels in real terms. This means 2024/25 will be the highest ever level of spending on schools in real terms per pupil. It will enable head teachers to continue to concentrate funding in the areas that positively impact educational attainment. This includes high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most.</p><p>The Department recognises that every school’s circumstances are different. Where schools are in financial difficulty, they should contact their Local Authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 108248 question first answered 19/12/2022 16:11:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1549828

registered interest
date	08/12/2022
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 recent assessment she has made of real-terms changes in school budgets due to the impact of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	106424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The 2022 Autumn Statement announced significant additional investment in schools. The core schools budget will increase by £2 billion in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. This is over and above totals announced at Spending Review 2021. This year, schools' funding is £4 billion higher than last year, rising by another £3.5 billion in 2023. Taken together, that means a 15% increase in funding in two years. The Institute for Fiscal Studies have said that this additional funding will fully cover expected increases in school costs up to 2024, and will take per pupil spending back to at least 2010 levels in real terms.</p><p>The additional funding will enable head teachers to continue to concentrate funding in the areas that the Department knows has a positive effect on educational attainment, including high quality teaching and targeted support to the children who need it most, as well as help schools to manage higher costs, including higher energy bills and staff pay awards</p><p>The Department also provides a range of school resource management tools, designed to help schools get the best value from their resources, and help direct funding towards improving outcomes for their pupils.</p><p>The Department understands that each school’s circumstances are different. Where schools are in serious financial difficulty, they should contact their Local Authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2022 17:43:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1548627

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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 the additional funding for schools announced in the Autumn Statement will be distributed.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	102848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>On 6 December, the Department confirmed further details on how the £2 billion additional funding for schools announced in the 2022 Autumn Statement will be allocated in 2023/24.</p><p>£400 million will be allocated to Local Authorities’ high needs budgets, with the rest allocated to schools through a new grant, and to boost the pupil premium.</p><p>Mainstream schools will receive this additional funding through a new grant from April 2023, on top of the core funding allocations they receive via the National Funding Formula. The methodology for calculating allocations for schools via this new grant will largely mirror that of the 2022/23 Schools Supplementary Grant. The Department will publish further details and funding rates for the new grant before the end of December 2022.</p><p>For a typical primary school with 200 pupils, this new revenue equates to approximately £28,000 additional funding. It equates to approximately £170,000 for a typical secondary school with 900 pupils.</p><p>Local Authorities will be obliged to pass on increases comparable to that for mainstream schools to special and alternative provision schools, from the £400 million that will be allocated to their high needs budgets. The Department will confirm details on how this will work shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2022 13:41:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1548628

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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 her Department is providing additional funding to schools whose budgets fall below the minimum per pupil funding level.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	102849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The minimum per pupil funding levels (MPPLs) in the schools National Funding Formula have been set so that, in the 2023/24 financial year, every primary school will receive at least £4,405 per pupil, and every secondary school at least £5,715.</p><p>All schools, including schools funded by reference to the MPPLs, will also receive additional funding in the 2023/24 financial year, following the 2022 Autumn Statement. A typical 200 pupil primary school can be expected to receive approximately £28,000, on average. A typical 900 pupil secondary school can be expected to receive £170,000. The Department will announce further details on allocations shortly.</p><p>The MPPL values are compulsory in Local Authority funding formulae, which determine actual funding allocations for maintained schools and academies. Academy trusts have flexibilities over how the funding they are allocated in respect of their individual academies is then distributed across academies in their trust. This means that in some cases, an academy could receive a lower per pupil funding amount than the MPPL value. This may reflect, for example, activities that are paid for by the trust centrally, rather than by individual academies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2022 13:34:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1547491

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December to Question 97665 on Schools: Finance, when her Department will set out plans for the allocation of the additional funding announced in the Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	101087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department confirmed further details on 6 December 2022 regarding how the £2 billion additional funding for schools, announced in the Autumn Statement, will be allocated in 2023/24 financial year.</p><p>£400 million will be allocated to Local Authorities’ high needs budgets, with the rest allocated to schools through a new grant and to boost the pupil premium.</p><p>Mainstream schools will receive this additional funding through a new grant from April 2023, on top of the core funding allocations they receive via the National Funding Formula. The methodology for calculating allocations for schools via this new grant will largely mirror that of the 2022/23 Schools Supplementary Grant. The Department will publish further details and funding rates for the new grant before the end of December 2022.</p><p>For a typical primary school with 200 pupils, this new revenue equates to approximately £28,000 additional funding, and approximately £170,000 for a typical secondary school with 900 pupils.</p><p>Special and alternative provision schools will receive an increase comparable to that for mainstream schools, from the £400 million that will be allocated to Local Authorities’ high needs budgets. The Department will confirm details on how this will work shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/12/2022 15:07:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne