Asked by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the current value is of PFI contracts for academy schools that are managed by local authorities; and how much Government funding is allocated to local authorities to undertake that work.
Answered by Nick Gibb
After a school undergoes conversion to an academy, it is no longer managed by local authorities. In the majority of cases, local authorities typically charge a fee to the schools and academies within a private finance initiative (PFI) contract in respect of local authority management of the PFI contract. The Department does not hold details on these fees. For further information, please contact the relevant local authority.
Asked by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will set out (a) total school funding, (b) school funding per primary pupil and (c) school funding per secondary pupil in real terms for each year from 1996-97 to 2018-19 in England.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Funding per pupil in cash terms from 1996/97 to 2018/19 and total schools funding from 2001/02 to 2018/19 are set out in the attached tables. Before 2001 schools funding was included within the local government funding settlement. For this reason, the total funding prior to 2001 is not readily available. Before 2018/19 funding was not allocated separately for primary and secondary phases.
The Government publishes Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflators that can be used to understand the impact of inflation over time. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-october-2018-budget-2018.
Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown that per pupil spending in schools in 2020 is set to be at least 70% higher in real terms than it was in 1990: https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/R150.pdf.
Asked by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which agencies and other public bodies accountable to him will not have published their annual report and accounts for 2017-2018 by 31 July 2018; and what the reasons are for each such body not having done so by that date.
Answered by Anne Milton
A list of the agencies and other public bodies which are accountable to the department can be found on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations. All accounts that are published will appear on the bodies’ individual websites.
As per the Government Resources and Accounts Act (2000), there is no legal requirement for agencies or other public bodies to publish their accounts before the January, following year end.