PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(22 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 22771 on Schools: Admissions, what proportion of the associated revenue costs of pupils entering the state sector from the independent sector relates to Cambridgeshire.

Asked by:
Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative)

The government does not have plans to produce an estimate of revenue costs of pupils entering the state sector from the private sector by local authority.

As set out previously, the department will monitor demand for school places and capacity using our normal processes and continue to work with local authorities to meet any pressures that may arise.

School funding levels are set annually using the national funding formula, and schools are funded on the basis of their pupil numbers in the previous October census.

The government expects to raise around £1.8 billion per annum from these policies by the 2029/30 financial year. Additionally, for the 2025/26 financial year, the government announced a £2.3 billion increase to the core schools budget at the Autumn Budget 2024, increasing per pupil funding in real terms.

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