Mathematics: Education
(asked on 28th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 4.24 of Autumn Budget 2017, what funding her Department plans to allocate for (a) expanding the Teaching for Mastery maths programme, (b) the premium for pupils taking maths, further maths or core maths, (c) providing an annual £350,000 for every maths school under the specialist maths school model, (d) the pilot to improve GCSE maths resit outcomes and (e) establishing Further Education Centres of Excellence in each of the next five financial years.
Autumn Budget announced £177 million investment in maths over the next 5 years. The budgeted amounts for each of the specified programmes are as follows:
- £27 million to further expand the Teaching for Mastery maths programme to reach 11,000 primary and secondary schools by 2022-23;
- £83.2 million to provide £600 for every additional pupil taking Maths or Further Maths A levels or Core Maths;
- £18 million additional funding for specialist Maths Schools;
- £8.5 million for the post-16 basic Maths pilot, which will run for 2 years; and
- £40.3 million for Further Education Centres of Excellence.
£ million | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | TOTAL |
a) Teaching for mastery of mathematics | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 27 |
b) Maths premium for 16-19 year olds | 0 | 4.6 | 15 | 26.6 | 37 | 83.2 |
c) Maths schools | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
d) Post-16 basic Maths pilot | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 0 | 8.5 |
e) FE Centres of Excellence | 7.2 | 6.5 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 40.3 |
These figures do not include the Barnett consequential for these measures, which is provided to the Devolved Administrations.
The Department for Education's total budgets in 2020-21 and beyond will be set at a future Spending Review, but will include the full costs of these Budget measures.