Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department allocated to Solihull Council through the Financial Transparency in Local Authority Maintained Schools Grant.

In the 2021/22 financial year, Solihull was given £2,739 through the Financial Transparency in Local Authority Maintained Schools Grant. This was the first time that the grant was distributed. In the 2022/23 financial year, this grant, totalling £772,000, distributed across 150 Local Authorities, was consolidated into the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities’ local government settlement, alongside other similar grants to Local Authorities.