Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the funding required by Brighton & Hove City Council to deliver children’s services in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, and (c) 2020-21.

Information on every local authority’s demand and spend in children’s services is published in the department’s statistical first releases and brought together in our local authority interactive tool: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait.

Brighton & Hove’s core spending power for 2018 to 1019 is £221.8 million and is rising to £225.2 million in 2019 to 2020.

The government is working between now and the Spending Review to get a sharper and more granular picture of demand for children’s services. The department is also working alongside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector as part of the fair funding review of relative needs and resources to develop a robust, up-to-date approach to funding distribution for children's services, which will determine new baseline funding allocations for local authorities in England 2020 to 2021.