PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Schools: Finance (25 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the change will be in funding to schools from baseline block funding allocation 2015-16 to academic year 2019-20 of the implementation of the National Funding Formula in (a) Tooting constituency, (b) Wandsworth Borough Council, (c) Greater London Authority and (d) the UK in (i) nominal and (ii) real terms.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

The schools block funding allocation in 2015-16 was £32.2bn for England and £148m for Wandsworth local authority.

We have now published full detail of the school and high needs national funding formulae, and the impact they will have for every local authority here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.

In 2019-20 England’s schools block allocation would rise to £33.6bn, based on pupil numbers and characteristics from 2017-18. The actual allocation for 2019-20 will be adjusted to take account of more recent pupil number and characteristic data. On the same basis, Wandsworth would receive £155m and Tooting would receive £61.2m. We do not allocate funding on a regional basis so we do not calculate statistics for the Greater London Authority.

The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies have said, the additional £1.3 billion we are investing in schools funding means that overall funding per pupil across the country will now be maintained in real terms up to 2020. We do not calculate real terms funding estimates at a local level.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
3 November 2017