Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department allocated to schools in Harborough constituency in each financial year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the funding that will be allocated to schools in Harborough constituency under the National Funding Formula in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

I refer the hon. Member for Harborough to the answer I gave on 10 May 2018 to Question 138114.

The Department primarily allocates revenue funding for schools at local authority (LA) level. Schools in Harborough will attract 6.4% more funding under the final national funding formula for schools, equivalent to £256 more per pupil. LAs will continue to set local formulae to determine individual schools’ budgets in 2018-19 and 2019-20. It remains the Government’s intention that every school’s budget should be set on the basis of a single, national formula, but a period of transition will provide greater stability for schools.

The Department will publish notional funding formula allocations for 2019/20 later this year after updating calculations using the latest autumn census data.