Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the outcome has been of each application that local authorities have made to his Department to move funds from the schools block to the high needs block in 2018-19.
For the funding year 2018/19, the Department received 44 requests from local authorities to move funding from the schools block to the high needs block. A number of these requests were subsequently withdrawn by the local authorities and decisions were made on 27 requests. The list below details the 27 local authorities who have made this request and the outcome of each decision.
Local Authority | Outcome |
Barnsley | Full request not allowed, partial approval provided |
Bath and North East Somerset | Not allowed |
Bolton | Allowed |
Bournemouth | Revised request allowed |
Bristol | Allowed |
Bromley | Allowed |
Derby | Not allowed |
Dorset | Not allowed |
Hackney | Not allowed |
Hammersmith and Fulham | Not allowed |
Hartlepool | Allowed |
Hillingdon | Not allowed |
Kingston upon Hull | Not allowed |
Kingston upon Thames | Full request not allowed, partial approval provided |
Lambeth | Not allowed |
Middlesbrough | Allowed |
North Somerset | Allowed |
Northumberland | Allowed |
Oldham | Revised request allowed |
Poole | Allowed |
Rotherham | Not allowed |
South Gloucestershire | Allowed |
Southwark | Allowed |
Thurrock | Allowed |
Trafford | Allowed |
West Sussex | Allowed |
Wokingham | Not allowed |