Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National funding formula tables for schools and high needs, published on 14 September 2017, how much of the additional £1.3 billion in the core schools budget previously announced to the House in her Oral statement of 17 July 2017, column 563 will be allocated to selective state schools in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 under the national funding formula.

The additional £1.3 billion that we are investing in schools across 2018-19 and 2019-20 means that core funding for schools and high needs will rise from almost £41 billion in 2017-18 to £42.4 billion in 2018-19, and £43.5 billion in 2019-20. This overall total of schools and high needs funding will be allocated to local authorities according to the schools and high needs national funding formula respectively. The additional £1.3 billion will be allocated to local authorities as part of, and in the same way as, the rest of the core funding.

We have now announced details of the new national funding formula, meaning that from April 2018 funding will finally be allocated on a fair and transparent basis for schools in England. Full details of schools’ allocations are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.

There is no distinction made in the formula between different types of school; selective schools will be allocated funding on the same basis as all other schools.