Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2023 to Question 159026 on Schools: Standards, in which month her Department plans to release the funding for the 24 Priority Areas for Raising School Standards.

Informed by Local Partnership Boards, the Department will directly commission and fund organisations to deliver targeted support in Priority Education Investment Areas to improve literacy and numeracy.

The Department has already begun commissioning organisations to deliver these activities with initial payments to commence by July 2023.

The Department has this week published the allocation of local needs funding for each Priority Area on GOV.UK.