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1713475

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
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 potential impact of not increasing pupil premium funding in line with inflation on disadvantaged students.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	23390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Pupil premium funding is rising to over £2.9 billion in 2024/25, an increase of around £90 million from 2023 to 2024. In 2024/25 the pupil premium funding rate for primary pupils is £1,480, and £1,050 for secondary pupils. Looked-after, and previously looked-after, children attract a higher rate of £2,570.</p><p> </p><p>These rates for 2024/25 were an increase of 1.7% on those for 2023/24. This increase was in line with inflation as measured by the GDP deflator forecasts when the rates were announced for 2024/25. As the inflation forecast for 2024/25 has since reduced, the increase in pupil premium rates of 1.7% is now higher than the latest inflation forecast.</p><p> </p><p>This increase ensures that this target funding continues to help schools to support disadvantaged pupils and close attainment gaps.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/04/2024 14:05:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1662060

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of per-pupil funding on educational outcomes for pupils in areas with deprived neighbourhoods outside London.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	200306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2023 answer text <p>The National Funding Formula (NFF) continues to distribute funding fairly based on schools’ and pupils’ needs and characteristics. In 2023/24, the Department has targeted a greater proportion of schools NFF funding towards deprived pupils than ever before. Over £4 billion (9.8%) of the formula has been allocated according to deprivation, while over £7 billion (17.4%), has been allocated to additional needs overall. As a result, schools with the highest levels of deprivation, on average, attract the largest per pupil funding increases. This additional funding is provided on the same basis for disadvantaged pupils wherever they are in the country, both inside and outside of London.</p><p>On top of this core funding, Pupil Premium funding rates have increased by 5% in the 2023/24 financial year to a total of almost £2.9 billion. This increase in funding is on top of £1 billion of recovery premium funding in the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years, which was allocated to deliver evidence based approaches to support educational recovery for disadvantaged pupils, and over £300 million delivered in 2021/22. Both Pupil Premium and recovery premium funding is distributed at the same rates to pupils in and outside London.</p><p>Alongside the NFF, the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funds schools based on rates of disadvantage. Since the launch of the NTP in November 2020, more than £1 billion has been made available to support tutoring. From November 2020 to July 2023 nearly 4 million tutoring courses have been started. Over 1.3 million courses were started during the 2022/23 academic year up to May. Around 208,000 (16%) of those courses took place in London, while a third of those courses took place in the North of England (the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and The Humber).</p><p>In addition, at a regional level, the Department has identified 55 Education Investment Areas (EIAs) with the lowest attainment outcomes. There are 55 Education Investment areas and 24 Priority Education Investment Areas, all of which are located outside of London. The Department is targeting its intensive investment at areas where there is the highest need and most entrenched barriers to school improvement. In these areas, the Department is providing £86 million for Trust Capacity funding, up to £150 million for Connect the Classroom, and extra funding for Levelling Up Premium retention payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/10/2023 11:19:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1543762

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many children were eligible for Pupil Premium in (1) 2020–21, (2) 2021–22, and (3) the current academic year.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL3570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The overall pupil premium eligibility figures for each of the last three academic years are 2,161,075 in 2022/23, 2,086,736 in 2021/22, and 2,031,666 in 2020/21. Further information on the number of pupil premium eligible pupils in England, including allocations for financial years 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021</a>, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022</a>, and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023</a>.</p><p>Information in these links shows the total number of pupil premium eligible pupils broken down by the different strands of eligibility. The total number of pupil premium eligible pupils can specifically be found in the ‘School Type’, ‘Local Authority’ and ‘Parliamentary Constituency’ sheets of the relevant allocations file.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 25/11/2022 14:55:51 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1536513

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
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 effectiveness of the pupil premium on improving education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in schools in England; and if she will take steps to uprate the pupil premium in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	72320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>Since its introduction in 2011, the Pupil Premium has provided additional funding for state-funded schools in England to improve education outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Pupil Premium funding rates are increasing by 2.7% in the 2022/23 financial year, taking total pupil premium funding to over £2.6 billion. Rates for the 2023/24 financial year will be announced in due course.</p><p>In addition, £1 billion of recovery premium funding is being provided to state funded schools across the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years, to deliver evidence based approaches to support educational recovery of disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>To give pupils access to the best evidenced support with this funding, the Department has re-endowed the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) with £137 million. Building on their work over the past decade, the EEF will use this funding to build the Department’s understanding of what works to raise disadvantaged pupils’ attainment. From the start of the 2022/23 academic year, schools must use their funding in line with the Department’s published ‘menu of approaches’, which draws on EEF evidence to ensure they are focused on raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>Since the introduction of Pupil Premium in 2011, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers generally narrowed until 2019, before the disruption to education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the widening of the gap. The Department is committed to helping schools achieve the best possible outcomes for this funding by ensuring approaches are rooted in evidence of effective practice. The Department constantly reviews and assesses the effectiveness of the Pupil Premium to make sure it is supporting pupils facing the most disadvantage.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/11/2022 14:09:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1439118

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the impact of the impact of Pupil Premium Plus on (1) the educational outcomes of previously looked after children, including attainment, and (2) the personal outcomes of previously looked after children.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL6774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The experiences and barriers that looked-after children face do not disappear when they leave care through adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order, which can mean they experience poorer outcomes than children who have never been in care. In 2019, 41% of previously looked-after pupils reached the expected level in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2, which is lower than the 65% for non-looked-after children, but higher than that for looked-after children. Figures show that 47% of previously looked after children at the end of key stage 2 have a special educational need (SEN) identified, compared to 18% of non-looked after children. Attainment rates for children with a SEN are much lower. The higher prevalence of SEN amongst previously looked after children can partly explain the gap in attainment compared to non-looked after children at key stage 2.</p><p>Pupil premium plus funding (of £2,345 per child per financial year in 2021/22), is managed by the child’s school. The ‘Using Pupil Premium’ guidance supports school leaders to use their funding effectively and explains that schools must ensure they consider the specific needs of previously looked-after children, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability</a>.</p><p>Statutory guidance for designated teachers includes information on both the use and management of the funding, including how they should involve the child’s parents or guardians in decisions affecting their child’s education, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. Further, schools are required to publish a pupil premium strategy each December, setting out how they intend to use the funding to support eligible pupils and the outcomes that were achieved in the previous academic year. The statement is an accountability tool for the benefit of parents, governors and trustees, where schools are required to demonstrate that spending decisions have been informed by evidence, and what challenges among eligible pupils they are seeking to address.</p><p>The Personal Education Plan is part of the wider care plan for looked-after children, as such they are not a statutory requirement for previously looked-after children. The additional support for previously looked-after children relies on self-declaration by adoptive parents and guardians and, whilst we have worked with the sector to encourage parents to declare, we respect their right to choose whether or not to declare their child’s previously looked-after status. Where additional needs are identified they should be addressed through the special educational needs support in schools or, where there is a higher level of need, in education and health care planning.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6775 HL6776 question first answered 21/03/2022 16:05:46 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1439119

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of Adoption UK’s report From Both Sides, published in February; and in particular, the finding that there is a lack of clarity around the purpose and appropriate use of Pupil Premium Plus for previously looked after children and that this is limiting its effectiveness.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL6775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The experiences and barriers that looked-after children face do not disappear when they leave care through adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order, which can mean they experience poorer outcomes than children who have never been in care. In 2019, 41% of previously looked-after pupils reached the expected level in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2, which is lower than the 65% for non-looked-after children, but higher than that for looked-after children. Figures show that 47% of previously looked after children at the end of key stage 2 have a special educational need (SEN) identified, compared to 18% of non-looked after children. Attainment rates for children with a SEN are much lower. The higher prevalence of SEN amongst previously looked after children can partly explain the gap in attainment compared to non-looked after children at key stage 2.</p><p>Pupil premium plus funding (of £2,345 per child per financial year in 2021/22), is managed by the child’s school. The ‘Using Pupil Premium’ guidance supports school leaders to use their funding effectively and explains that schools must ensure they consider the specific needs of previously looked-after children, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability</a>.</p><p>Statutory guidance for designated teachers includes information on both the use and management of the funding, including how they should involve the child’s parents or guardians in decisions affecting their child’s education, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. Further, schools are required to publish a pupil premium strategy each December, setting out how they intend to use the funding to support eligible pupils and the outcomes that were achieved in the previous academic year. The statement is an accountability tool for the benefit of parents, governors and trustees, where schools are required to demonstrate that spending decisions have been informed by evidence, and what challenges among eligible pupils they are seeking to address.</p><p>The Personal Education Plan is part of the wider care plan for looked-after children, as such they are not a statutory requirement for previously looked-after children. The additional support for previously looked-after children relies on self-declaration by adoptive parents and guardians and, whilst we have worked with the sector to encourage parents to declare, we respect their right to choose whether or not to declare their child’s previously looked-after status. Where additional needs are identified they should be addressed through the special educational needs support in schools or, where there is a higher level of need, in education and health care planning.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6774 HL6776 question first answered 21/03/2022 16:05:46 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1439120

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the recommendation in Adoption UK’s recent report From Both Sides, published in February, that a form of Personal Education Plan should be introduced as a statutory requirement for all previously looked after children to support effective use of Pupil Premium Plus.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL6776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The experiences and barriers that looked-after children face do not disappear when they leave care through adoption, special guardianship or child arrangements order, which can mean they experience poorer outcomes than children who have never been in care. In 2019, 41% of previously looked-after pupils reached the expected level in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2, which is lower than the 65% for non-looked-after children, but higher than that for looked-after children. Figures show that 47% of previously looked after children at the end of key stage 2 have a special educational need (SEN) identified, compared to 18% of non-looked after children. Attainment rates for children with a SEN are much lower. The higher prevalence of SEN amongst previously looked after children can partly explain the gap in attainment compared to non-looked after children at key stage 2.</p><p>Pupil premium plus funding (of £2,345 per child per financial year in 2021/22), is managed by the child’s school. The ‘Using Pupil Premium’ guidance supports school leaders to use their funding effectively and explains that schools must ensure they consider the specific needs of previously looked-after children, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability</a>.</p><p>Statutory guidance for designated teachers includes information on both the use and management of the funding, including how they should involve the child’s parents or guardians in decisions affecting their child’s education, and is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. Further, schools are required to publish a pupil premium strategy each December, setting out how they intend to use the funding to support eligible pupils and the outcomes that were achieved in the previous academic year. The statement is an accountability tool for the benefit of parents, governors and trustees, where schools are required to demonstrate that spending decisions have been informed by evidence, and what challenges among eligible pupils they are seeking to address.</p><p>The Personal Education Plan is part of the wider care plan for looked-after children, as such they are not a statutory requirement for previously looked-after children. The additional support for previously looked-after children relies on self-declaration by adoptive parents and guardians and, whilst we have worked with the sector to encourage parents to declare, we respect their right to choose whether or not to declare their child’s previously looked-after status. Where additional needs are identified they should be addressed through the special educational needs support in schools or, where there is a higher level of need, in education and health care planning.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL6774 HL6775 question first answered 21/03/2022 16:05:46 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1365586

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy to increase the pupil premium in real terms each year for the duration of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	68104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>This government is committed to levelling up opportunities to make sure everyone has a fair chance to realise their potential and ensure no-one is left behind. The pupil premium furthers this objective by helping schools improve the academic attainment and wider outcomes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p>Total pupil premium funding is increasing to more than £2.5 billion in the 2021-22 financial year, up by £60 million from 2020-21. This reflects an increase in funding in approximately two thirds of schools, as more children have become eligible for free school meals. The department plans to announce rates for the 2022-23 financial year later this year, in line with the usual timetable. Announcements for future years will be made in due course.</p><p>The department is continuing to deliver year on year real terms per pupil increases to school funding. As part of the spending review, by the 2024-25 financial year, we are investing a further £4.7 billion in the core schools budget, of which the pupil premium is an important part, compared to previous plans. On top of that, the government has announced an additional £1 billion for a recovery premium over the next two academic years (2022/23 and 2023/24). Building on the pupil premium, the recovery premium will help schools deliver evidence-based approaches to support the most disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>The department periodically reviews and assesses the effectiveness of all its policies, and this includes the pupil premium.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 68105 question first answered 08/11/2021 16:18:05 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1365587

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his policy to deliver enhanced pupil premium funding for pupils who have been eligible for support over four or more of the past six years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	68105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>This government is committed to levelling up opportunities to make sure everyone has a fair chance to realise their potential and ensure no-one is left behind. The pupil premium furthers this objective by helping schools improve the academic attainment and wider outcomes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p>Total pupil premium funding is increasing to more than £2.5 billion in the 2021-22 financial year, up by £60 million from 2020-21. This reflects an increase in funding in approximately two thirds of schools, as more children have become eligible for free school meals. The department plans to announce rates for the 2022-23 financial year later this year, in line with the usual timetable. Announcements for future years will be made in due course.</p><p>The department is continuing to deliver year on year real terms per pupil increases to school funding. As part of the spending review, by the 2024-25 financial year, we are investing a further £4.7 billion in the core schools budget, of which the pupil premium is an important part, compared to previous plans. On top of that, the government has announced an additional £1 billion for a recovery premium over the next two academic years (2022/23 and 2023/24). Building on the pupil premium, the recovery premium will help schools deliver evidence-based approaches to support the most disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>The department periodically reviews and assesses the effectiveness of all its policies, and this includes the pupil premium.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 68104 question first answered 08/11/2021 16:18:05 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1341248

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish statistics on the value of pupil premium allocations for (a) mainstream and (b) special schools in 2021-22 in each (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency on the basis of using school census data taken at January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	23187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2021 answer text <p>Pupil premium allocations for the 2021/22 financial year have been published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>The Department has also published the impact of moving to using the October census for the pupil premium for mainstream and special schools. This is available to view here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-effective-use-and-accountability</a>.</p><p>The calculation of pupil premium allocations is resource intensive. There are no plans to calculate hypothetical allocations showing what each school would have received if the pupil premium had been allocated on a different basis.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/07/2021 13:37:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell