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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2015
School Funding Formula

"This problem has grown up over several decades. It is not something which has sprung up under this coalition, nor even under the last Labour Government. It has come on over a period of decades—since the second world war, really—and I am delighted that this Government, and the two parties …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Mar 2015
School Funding Formula

"There will be a continued period of tough public finance and that undoubtedly makes it even more difficult to perform these sorts of adjustment, but it is vital that these changes take place. To have the confidence to do that we need to get them right and ensure that sparsity …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T5. Is the Minister aware that Chulmleigh academy in my constituency has been three quarters rebuilt for just £3.7 million, compared with the £18 million it was due to have cost under Building Schools for the Future? Given the school’s superb record of delivery and astonishing value for money, will …..."
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Written Question
Pupil Premium
Monday 12th January 2015

Asked by: Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat - North Devon)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to release statistics on pupil premium take-up since September 2014.

Answered by David Laws

For financial year 2014-15, the Department for Education has already published the number of pupils eligible for the pupil premium and illustrative allocations for schools in December 2013, based on free school meal figures gathered up to and including the January 2013 school census. This information is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-2013-to-2014-final-allocation-tables

The final allocations for 2015-16 based on the January 2015 school census figures will then be published towards the end of 2015 or early 2016.

Written Question
Pupil Premium
Tuesday 21st October 2014

Asked by: Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat - North Devon)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of how many infant pupils (a) are eligible to receive pupil premium and (b) have been registered to receive pupil premium in the school year 2014-15.

Answered by David Laws

Pupil premium funding is allocated to state-funded schools for each financial year rather than by school year, primarily on the basis of the number of pupils recorded in the January school census as having been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years. A smaller proportion of pupils attract the pupil premium on the basis of being looked after, or having left care through adoption or under a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangements Order.

The Department for Education has published illustrative pupil premium funding allocations for the financial year 2014-15, based on census data from 2013. Final allocations for 2014-15 will be published later in the year, based on pupil data gathered through the January 2014 school census and the spring 2014 children looked after data return (and also the October 2014 school census, for adopted and other previously looked after pupils who were not recorded as such in the January 2014 school census).

From the data on which the published illustrative allocations for 2014-15 are based, the Department estimates that 430,350 pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 will attract pupil premium funding on the basis of having been registered for FSM at any point in the last 6 years.

Pupil premium final allocations for the financial year 2015-16 will be based on pupil data gathered through the forthcoming January 2015 school census and the spring 2015 children looked after data return. Final allocations for 2015-16 will be published towards the end of 2015. To ensure we have the best estimates, we are working with primary schools and local authorities so that registration rates for benefits-related FSM are maintained for pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 classes.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2014
School Funding

"May I warmly welcome this significant step in the right direction? An extra £200 per pupil in Devon is a very welcome step. Of course, we still want to see a fair funding formula, but I recognise that the time to do it will probably be next year, when there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Nov 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Some 1.2 million children living within the Government’s own definition of childhood poverty do not get a free school meal. Why do the Government consider it a higher priority to give free school meals to all five, six and seven-year-olds, 1.3 million of whom can perfectly well afford to pay?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Apr 2013
Pupil Premium

"An estimated 3.6 million children in the UK live in poverty according to the Government’s own measure, but recent figures from the Children’s Society have uncovered that 1.2 million of those children who are of school age do not receive free school meals. Notwithstanding the nutritional benefits that children receive …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Apr 2013
Pupil Premium

"I strongly agree, and I welcome the suggestion from Ministers that they are working towards that objective. I also appreciate that, particularly in the current financial climate, it cannot be achieved overnight, but it would be a great pity if, during the five years in which the Conservatives and Liberal …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Apr 2013
Pupil Premium

"My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. In a minute or two I will address the reforms that I think are necessary. Happily, the coming of universal credit gives the Government an opportunity to reform the system. Of course, universal credit has great potential for considering household income holistically, and …..."
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