Schools: Finance

(asked on 14th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 May 2018 to Question 138993 on Schools: Finance, how much each local authority has asked permission to transfer (a) in cash terms and (b) as a proportion of their block funding for schools.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 17th May 2018

The decisions for the 19 local authorities are set out in the table below:

Local Authority Name

Decision

Amount of transfer
(£million)

Percentage of
schools block

Barnsley

Partial Approval*

1.4

1.00%

Bath and North East Somerset

Not Allowed

3

3.00%

Bolton

Approved

2

1.00%

Bournemouth

Approved

1.1

1.20%

Bristol

Approved

2

0.80%

Derby

Not Allowed

Up to 1.7

Up to 1.0%

Hammersmith and Fulham

Not Allowed

0.7

0.70%

Hartlepool

Approved

0.5

0.80%

Hull

Not Allowed

Above 0.9

Above 0.5%

Kingston-upon-Thames

Partial Approval*

1.3

1.30%

Lambeth

Not Allowed

1.5

0.70%

North Somerset

Approved

1.2

0.97%

Northumberland

Approved

1.8

1.00%

Oldham

Approved

1.9

1.00%

Poole

Approved

0.7

0.92%

Rotherham

Not Allowed

2.4

1.30%

South Gloucestershire

Approved

2.9

1.90%

Southwark

Approved

2.2

0.90%

Thurrock

Approved

1.9

1.60%

NT: *The totals and percentages shown are those applied for, not that approved.

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