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1730209

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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, on what pupil number projections the (a) resource and (b) capital spending budgets for the Department for Education for (i) this and (ii) next year are based.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	6005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Ensuring schools have the resources and buildings they need is a key part of the department’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.</p><p>The department has allocated £1.8 billion in capital funding to improve the condition of school buildings for the 2024/25 financial year. This funding, which includes school condition allocations (SCA) and the budget for the condition improvement fund (CIF) programme, was based on a methodology that takes account of data on condition, location and pupil numbers weighted by phase of education. Pupil number data was taken from the spring 2023 census and the 2022/23 Individualised Learner Record (ILR). Details of the methodology are published on GOV.UK.</p><p>The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts and school capacity data from the annual school capacity survey. Over £700 million of allocations have been confirmed to support local authorities to create school places needed in September 2025 and September 2026.</p><p>£850 million has also been allocated to local authorities for 2024/25 to support them to provide sufficient school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or who require alternative provision (AP). This funding was allocated using data from the school census, the Special Educational Needs survey (SEN2) and the school capacity survey (SCAP23).</p><p>School revenue funding for 2024/25 has already been allocated using pupil numbers recorded in the October census 2023. The department is also providing almost £1.1 billion through the new core schools budget grant (CSBG) to support schools with their overall costs. CSBG allocations for 2024/25 have also been calculated by reference to the October census 2023.</p><p>Departmental expenditure limits for 2025/26 will be agreed at the Budget on 30 October. This will also confirm budgets for 2024/25. This includes the 2025/26 core schools’ budget and school capital budgets.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 6006 6007 question first answered 14/10/2024 16:16:20 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1730210

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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 amend the capital spending budget for the Department for Education based on actual full-time-equivalent pupil numbers in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	6006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Ensuring schools have the resources and buildings they need is a key part of the department’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.</p><p>The department has allocated £1.8 billion in capital funding to improve the condition of school buildings for the 2024/25 financial year. This funding, which includes school condition allocations (SCA) and the budget for the condition improvement fund (CIF) programme, was based on a methodology that takes account of data on condition, location and pupil numbers weighted by phase of education. Pupil number data was taken from the spring 2023 census and the 2022/23 Individualised Learner Record (ILR). Details of the methodology are published on GOV.UK.</p><p>The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts and school capacity data from the annual school capacity survey. Over £700 million of allocations have been confirmed to support local authorities to create school places needed in September 2025 and September 2026.</p><p>£850 million has also been allocated to local authorities for 2024/25 to support them to provide sufficient school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or who require alternative provision (AP). This funding was allocated using data from the school census, the Special Educational Needs survey (SEN2) and the school capacity survey (SCAP23).</p><p>School revenue funding for 2024/25 has already been allocated using pupil numbers recorded in the October census 2023. The department is also providing almost £1.1 billion through the new core schools budget grant (CSBG) to support schools with their overall costs. CSBG allocations for 2024/25 have also been calculated by reference to the October census 2023.</p><p>Departmental expenditure limits for 2025/26 will be agreed at the Budget on 30 October. This will also confirm budgets for 2024/25. This includes the 2025/26 core schools’ budget and school capital budgets.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 6005 6007 question first answered 14/10/2024 16:16:20 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1730211

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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 amend the revenue spending budget for the Department for Education based on actual full-time-equivalent pupil numbers in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	6007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Ensuring schools have the resources and buildings they need is a key part of the department’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every child the best start in life.</p><p>The department has allocated £1.8 billion in capital funding to improve the condition of school buildings for the 2024/25 financial year. This funding, which includes school condition allocations (SCA) and the budget for the condition improvement fund (CIF) programme, was based on a methodology that takes account of data on condition, location and pupil numbers weighted by phase of education. Pupil number data was taken from the spring 2023 census and the 2022/23 Individualised Learner Record (ILR). Details of the methodology are published on GOV.UK.</p><p>The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts and school capacity data from the annual school capacity survey. Over £700 million of allocations have been confirmed to support local authorities to create school places needed in September 2025 and September 2026.</p><p>£850 million has also been allocated to local authorities for 2024/25 to support them to provide sufficient school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), or who require alternative provision (AP). This funding was allocated using data from the school census, the Special Educational Needs survey (SEN2) and the school capacity survey (SCAP23).</p><p>School revenue funding for 2024/25 has already been allocated using pupil numbers recorded in the October census 2023. The department is also providing almost £1.1 billion through the new core schools budget grant (CSBG) to support schools with their overall costs. CSBG allocations for 2024/25 have also been calculated by reference to the October census 2023.</p><p>Departmental expenditure limits for 2025/26 will be agreed at the Budget on 30 October. This will also confirm budgets for 2024/25. This includes the 2025/26 core schools’ budget and school capital budgets.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 6005 6006 question first answered 14/10/2024 16:16:20 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1731282

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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 it her policy to restore school funding in real terms to the level provided in May 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Ellie Chowns
uin	7167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>This government is increasing overall core revenue funding for schools to almost £61.8 billion this year (2024/25). In July, the department announced that it is providing schools with almost £1.1 billion of additional funding in the 2024/25 academic year through the new core schools budget grant (CSBG), to support them with overall costs. This matches what the department has calculated is needed to fully fund, at a national level, the teacher pay award and the support staff pay offer in the 2024/25 financial year, after accounting for the available headroom in schools’ existing budgets.</p><p> </p><p>This increase in funding shows the government’s commitment to supporting schools as a part of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental expenditure limits for the 2025/26 financial year are yet to be agreed across government and will be set alongside the Budget on 30 October. This will include 2025/26 schools’ funding.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 14/10/2024 13:20:46 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5249

1726707

registered interest
date	02/09/2024
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 ensure the adequacy of funding for rural schools (a) in South Shropshire constituency and (b) nationally.
tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	3778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2024 answer text <p>The national funding formula (NFF) accounts for the challenges faced by small schools in rural areas through the lump sum and sparsity factors. The lump sum provides a fixed amount of £134,000 that is unrelated to pupil numbers, and so is particularly beneficial to small rural schools. The department is also providing £98 million in total through the sparsity factor in 2024/25 to support small and remote schools, which typically benefits rural schools. In 2024/25, 75 schools in Shropshire local authority area attract sparsity funding in the NFF, including 40 in the South Shropshire constituency.</p><p>In July 2024, the department also announced almost £1.1 billion through the Core Schools Budget Grant to support schools with their overall costs. All schools, including rural schools, will receive funding through this grant in 2024/25.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 10/09/2024 15:01:11 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1726747

registered interest
date	02/09/2024
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 the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Welwyn Hatfield constituency, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England in over the past five academic years.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewin
uin	3853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2024 answer text <p>The tables below set out funding statistics for Welwyn Hatfield constituency, Hertfordshire and England in each of the last five years. The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) funding cycle is on a financial year basis, rather than an academic one, so this is what has been provided in this answer.</p><p> </p><p>For Hertfordshire and England, the figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the DSG. The figures in table one include premises funding but exclude falling rolls and growth funding (funding for local authorities to support schools with significant increases or decreases in pupil numbers).</p><p> </p><p>The DSG is allocated at local authority level and, as such, the equivalent figures are not available for Welwyn Hatfield constituency. The constituency level data for Welwyn Hatfield is instead calculated based on the notional schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The figures in table two are not comparable to those in table one because DSG funding cannot be broken down to constituency level, so the context of the funding figures are not the same.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide average per-pupil funding for the last five years, 2020/21 to 2024/25:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table one</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>DSG Schools Block per-pupil funding *</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hertfordshire</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,642</p></td><td><p>£5,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,024</p></td><td><p>£5,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,330</p></td><td><p>£5,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2023/24</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,634</p></td><td><p>£5,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024/25</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,764</p></td><td><p>£5,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Additional grants, such as the School Supplementary Grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br>Table two</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>NFF Schools Block per-pupil funding *</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Welwyn Hatfield</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,806</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2023/24</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024/25</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,755</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area. Additional grants, such as the SSG and the MSAG are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 10/09/2024 14:58:24 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5061

1725947

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
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 the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency, (b) the North East Combined Authority Area and (c) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead Central and Whickham
tabling member printed	Mark Ferguson
uin	3283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2024 answer text <p>The table below sets out funding statistics for the North East and England in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). All of the figures in the table exclude growth funding but include premises. The figures do not include the additional grant funding that schools across the country have received to support pay and pensions increases in 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>The DSG is allocated at local authority level and, as such, the equivalent figures are not available for Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency. The allocations that schools within a constituency receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides average per-pupil funding for the last five years, from the 2020/21 to 2024/25 financial years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>DSG Schools Block per-pupil funding </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East *</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,828</p></td><td><p>£5,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,220</p></td><td><p>£5,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,538</p></td><td><p>£5,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2023/24</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,869</p></td><td><p>£5,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024/25</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,993</p></td><td><p>£5,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The data the department holds for the North East is for the North East region, as opposed to the North East Combined Authority Area.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 09/09/2024 16:13:48 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5031

1726004

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
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 the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Knowsley constituency, (b) Merseyside, (c) the North West and (d) England in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Anneliese Midgley
uin	3294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2024 answer text <p>The tables below set out funding statistics for Knowsley constituency, Knowsley local authority, the North West and England in the last five years. Knowsley local authority is included instead of Merseyside, since Merseyside is not a local authority.</p><p> </p><p>The department cannot provide comparable funding data for each of the last 10 years due to the changes in the funding system since that time. The scope of the per pupil funding before and after 2018/19 are not directly comparable. In particular, funding for the central services provided by local authorities was split out from the schools block funding in 2018/19, and instead funded separately through the central school services block from that year onwards.</p><p> </p><p>For Knowsley local authority, the North West and England, the figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). All of the figures in table one exclude growth funding but include premises.</p><p> </p><p>The DSG is allocated at local authority level, and as such the equivalent figures are not available for Knowsley constituency. The constituency level data for Knowsley is therefore calculated based on the notional schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The figures in table two are not comparable to those in table one, not only because DSG funding cannot be aggregated down to constituency level, but also because the context of the funding figures is not the same.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide average per pupil funding from 2020/21 to 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table one</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>DSG Schools Block per pupil funding *</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Knowsley local authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>North West</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,382</p></td><td><p>£4,838</p></td><td><p>£5,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,752</p></td><td><p>£5,221</p></td><td><p>£5,212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,082</p></td><td><p>£5,524</p></td><td><p>£5,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2023/24</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,465</p></td><td><p>£5,835</p></td><td><p>£5,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024/25</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,651</p></td><td><p>£5,962</p></td><td><p>£5,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Additional grants, such as the School Supplementary grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional grant (MSAG) are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table two</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>NFF Schools Block per pupil funding **</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Knowsley constituency</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,619</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>£5,932</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>​2023/24</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024/25</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,867</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>** The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area. Additional grants, such as the School Supplementary grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional grant (MSAG) are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 04/09/2024 16:03:09 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5038

1723588

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
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 has set aside capital funding for the provision of potential additional places in state schools in the event they are required as a result of pupils moving from the independent sector to the state sector.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	1655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2024 answer text <p>Education is at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity so every child gets the best start in life. Ending tax breaks on private schools will help raise revenue to drive forward the change this government is committed to deliver. The department is supporting HM Treasury, which will deliver the tax changes<strong>.</strong> Further details were published by the government on 29 July 2024 and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-private-school-fees-removing-the-charitable-rates-relief-for-private-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-private-school-fees-removing-the-charitable-rates-relief-for-private-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department collects pupil forecasts and school capacity data from local authorities annually through the School Capacity survey. This data shows that, in May 2023, 11.7% of primary capacity and 11.5% of secondary capacity was unfilled nationally, meaning school places are available in many parts of the country.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 01/08/2024 15:38:17 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1716939

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
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 list the school related schemes that have received notice that funding will be (a) reduced and (b) ended since 1 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	25590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>This government is committed to providing a world class education system for all children and has invested significantly in education to achieve that.</p><p>Including the additional funding for teachers’ pay and pensions, funding for both mainstream schools and high needs is £2.9 billion higher in 2024/25 than in 2023/24. The overall core school budget will total £60.7 billion in 2024/25, which is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil. This means school funding is set to have risen by £11 billion by 2024/25 compared to 2021/22.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/05/2024 10:32:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson