Schools: Preston
(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department allocated to schools in the Preston constituency in each financial year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of the funding that will be allocated to schools in Preston constituency under the National Funding Formula in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.
Funding for schools is given to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), and local authorities in turn, distribute this money to schools in their area through their own local formulae. The following table outlines the schools block DSG allocations for Lancashire, for the years that this information is available. Schools block allocations are not calculated at constituency level.
Schools block DSG allocations for Lancashire
| Schools block unit of funding | Total schools block |
2013-14 | £4,486 | £684.2 million |
2014-15 | £4,486 | £686.6 million |
2015-16 | £4,479 | £692.3 million |
2016-17 | £4,482 | £701.4 million |
2017-18 | £4,504 | £714.7 million |
2018-19 | £4,533 | £727.9 million |
Prior to 2013-14, DSG allocations were not split into distinct blocks for schools, high needs and early years, and comparable data is not available.
Since 2018-19, schools block allocations have been calculated through the national funding formula (NFF), based on individual schools’ characteristics. The attached table outlines notional NFF allocations for schools in Preston in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
To provide stability for schools, local authorities will continue to be responsible for designing the distribution of funding in their areas in 2018-19 through to 2020-21. Because of this, the actual amount that schools receive may be different from the amount they are attracting through the national funding formula. Local authorities set their local formula in consultation with local schools.