Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the projected budget is for schools in the (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23 academic years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The attached table shows the total value of the core schools budget each year.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the schools budget in cash terms in each year (a) since 1997 and (b) until 2022-23 .
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below shows the value of the core schools budget each year since 2015-16:
Year | Core schools budget (in billions of pounds) |
2015-16 | 39.6 |
2016-17 | 40.1 |
2017-18 | 40.9 |
2018-19 | 42.4 |
2019-20 | 43.5 |
2020-21 | 47.6 |
2021-22 | 49.8 |
2022-23 | 52.2 |
The figures for 2020-21 to 2022-23 include the £1.5 billion per year that the Department will provide to fund additional pension costs for teachers.
Changes to the school funding system mean that the Department does not have comparable figures for years before 2015-16.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether per pupil funding will be the highest ever in real terms in 2022-23.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The increases in school funding announced at the 2019 Spending Round will mean the biggest funding boost for schools in a decade. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies have gone on record as saying that this settlement will restore real terms per pupil funding to previous levels.
This settlement also means that next year alone school funding will increase by 5%. This means that, under the national funding formula, every school in the country will attract at least a real terms increase in per pupil funding.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children were (a) looked-after and (b) assessed as being in need by local authority children's services rated (i) inadequate, (ii) requires improvement, (iii) good and (iv) outstanding in each year since 1997.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to my right hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of whether it is possible to replace tuition fees with maintenance grants and be cost-neutral to the public purse; and whether there would need to be a reduction in the number of student places to achieve that change in the current spending round.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
Taxpayers subsidise around 50% of the cost of higher education. The cost of the student finance system is a function of 3 main parameters: (i) the number of students supported, (ii) the level of resource per student and (iii) the terms of the funding (for example the balance of loan vs. grant funding) provided to students and institutions. Changing any of these parameters, for example by reintroducing maintenance grants, will require changes either or both of the other 2 if the outcome is to be cost neutral.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently published illustrative estimates of the potential cost to HM Treasury of abolishing tuition fees. This can be found here: https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14369.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many more students have attended university since the cap on student numbers was lifted; and what recent assessment his Department has made of whether there has been an increase in the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds attending university since that cap was lifted.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
In 2013, the government announced that the student number controls at publicly funded higher education institutions in England would be removed by 2015/16. This was preceded by a relaxation of student number controls for AAB students, who were made exempt from 2012/13, and ABB students, who were exempt from 2013/14.
Student number controls applied to full-time undergraduate students at English higher education institutions who were domiciled in the UK or European Union prior to study.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled in higher education institutions in England. Time series for UK and EU domiciled full-time undergraduate entrants at higher education institutions in England have been provided in the table.
UK and EU domiciled full-time undergraduate entrants
English Higher Education Institutions
Academic years 2011/12 to 2017/8
Academic year | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Total entrants | 389,575 | 334,820 | 362,910 | 373,950 | 387,610 | 395,485 | 393,675 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record 2011/12 to 2017/18
Note: (1) Figures in this table are rounded to the nearest multiple of five.
(2) Entrants refers to first year students.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the proportion of disadvantaged 18-year-olds from England accepted to full-time higher education. In 2018 there were a record proportion of disadvantaged 18-year-olds from England accepted onto full-time higher education courses.
Entry rates for English disadvantaged 18 year olds
Application cycle | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Disadvantaged entry rate | 14.4% | 14.4% | 15.6% | 17.0% | 18.0% | 18.9% | 19.9% | 20.2% |
Source: UCAS End of Cycle report 2018
Note: The disadvantage measure refers to POLAR Quintile 1. POLAR is an area-based measure of educational disadvantage.
Asked by: Philip Dunne (Conservative - Ludlow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the amount owed is in respect of loans for (a) tuition fees and (b) living costs to date; and what projections his Department has made of the amounts owed in respect of each of those loans in (i) 2025, (ii) 2030, (iii) 2040 and (iv) 2050.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
At the end of the 2018-19 financial year, the total outstanding loan balance was £121.8 billion[1].
This figure includes all loan products and covers borrowers who received loans as English
domiciled students studying in the UK or as EU domiciled students studying in England.
The corresponding forecasts are detailed in table 1 (attached).
The information by product (maintenance loans/tuition fee loans) is not readily available
and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
[1] Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loans-in-england-2018-to-2019. (Table 1A)