Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 191474, which 13 local authorities have been granted the ability to move funding from the schools block to the high needs block.

For the funding year 2018 to 2019, local authorities have the flexibility to transfer up to 0.5% of their schools block funding to another block of the Dedicated Schools Grant, with the approval of their schools forum. Local authorities were only required to submit a request if they wished to transfer more than 0.5% out of the schools block, or if they did not receive support from the schools forum for a transfer.

13 local authorities were allowed to transfer over 0.5% from the schools block to the high needs block.

The local authorities are listed below.