Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the financial effect of the new national funding formula on the salaries of teachers in schools in England.

Decisions on increases to teachers’ pay for the forthcoming academic year will be informed by the School Teacher Review Body process, which is ongoing.

The Department has reformed the unfair, opaque and outdated school funding system, ensuring that, for the first time, school funding will be distributed based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country.

Spending on schools will rise from just under £41 billion now to £43.5 billion in 2019-20. As the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed, overall funding per pupil across the country will now be maintained in real terms until 2020, representing an increase of at least 70 per cent since 1990.