Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 7 December 2018 to Question 117413 on Schools: Finance, how many disapplication requests for the ring-fenced dedicated schools grant his Department received from local authorities for the financial year 2018-19.

To date, for the 2018/19 funding year, there have been forty-eight requests to disapply the Dedicated Schools Grant conditions of grant in relation to the movement of funding out of the schools block. Nineteen of these requests have since been withdrawn.