Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will (a) introduce legislation and (b) issue guidance requiring schools to publish details of their annual budgets on their websites.

The Department publishes the schools block allocations for individual maintained schools and academies in November each year. Details of the allocations for 2016 to 2017 are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-block-funding-allocations-2016-to-2017.

Information on income and expenditure in local authority maintained schools (for financial years of April to March) is published in December each year and can be found on the school performance website at: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data.

Information on income and expenditure in academy schools (for academic/financial years of September to August) is published in July each year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data.