Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, further to her oral statement of 14 September 2017 on schools: national funding formula, how much of the £1.3 billion being spent on the core schools budget will go to each local authority in England in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

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 formulae 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.

Full details on the provisional allocations for local authorities and schools can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs. The ‘NFF summary table’ sets out the combined effect of the schools, high needs and central schools services formulae at local authority level.