Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135939, how much funding his Department provided to former Wakefield City Academy Trust schools and their new trusts by 1 April 2018.

The department has worked with all the schools and the new trusts to provide appropriate support and resources, including funding, so that each of the schools has what they require to improve pupil outcomes and secure the financial future for those schools.

Further detail on funding for the schools and their new trusts remains sensitive at this stage in the process. The department annually publishes transparency data on a key strand of relevant funding: ‘Academy trust transfers and grant funding’. This provides information on grant funding given to schools and trusts. The data shows funding provided where academies have joined new trusts in the financial year 2013-17 until 2016-17. Additional grant information for the year 2017-18 will be published in July 2018.