Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of pupil premium funding planned to be 2.7 per cent in 2022-23 in light of inflation figures.

The increase of 2.7% in pupil premium funding rates in financial year 2022-23 is in line with inflation based on the gross domestic product deflator forecast as in the Spending Review. As such, rates are expected to be maintained in real terms per pupil.