Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Figure 3 of the report entitled, Financial sustainability of schools, published by the National Audit Office in December 2016, whether his Department has plans to update its estimate of cumulative cost-pressures on schools.

As set out in the report entitled, Treasury Minutes Progress Report – July 2018, and in response to recommendations made by the Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office, the Department published an updated assessment of the cost pressures on schools in February 2018. This is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-costs-technical-note.