Education: North of England

(asked on 10th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2018 to Question 140739 on Education: North of England, how much and what proportion of the funding came from the Northern Powerhouse Education Fund.


Answered by
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Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 18th July 2018

As part of the 2016 Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy, the government committed £70 million to support educational improvement in the north, up to the end of March 2020. Since that announcement, the government has spent or committed significantly more than £70 million to support educational improvement in the north. This includes spending in key areas identified in Sir Nick Weller’s report, including measures in the north to improve teaching and leadership capacity; recruit and retain teachers; and close the disadvantage gap. In 2017, nearly 400,000 more children were in good or outstanding schools in the north compared to 2010.

As detailed in the response to Question 140739, funding was distributed in a number of ways. A series of bidding rounds were conducted for the Strategy School Improvement Fund and the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund. The northern elements of these and other national funds and iniatives were set out in the earlier answer, and details of the application process and the dates of the bidding rounds for those funds were detailed on GOV.UK at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/strategic-school-improvement-fund.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-and-leadership-innovation-fund.

In other cases, we either allocated funding directly to new initiatives for the north of England; or allocated additional funding to existing initiatives, to boost their impact in the north.

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