PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Schools: Finance (14 July 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will ensure that the Government increases its funding for local authorities sufficiently to ensure that no school will receive a cut in funding as a result of the imposition of the national funding formula.

Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)

We are providing an additional £1.3 billion for schools across 2018-19 and 2019-20 to support the introduction of the national funding formula from April next year. Along with the funding we had already committed for schools at the 2015 Spending Review, this will mean the core schools budget rises from just under £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion by 2020. The additional investment means that, over the next two years, we will be able to provide for a 0.5% a year per pupil increase for every school. Full details of the arrangements are set out at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/justine-greening-statement-to-parliament-on-school-funding.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
24 July 2017