Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her oral contribution of 27 June 2017, Official Report, column 487, whether her commitment that no school will have its budget cut as a result of the new national funding formula means that school budgets will be protected in (a) real terms or (b) cash terms.

We will set out the outcome of the schools national funding formula consultation in due course, including details of the protections for school budgets and allocations for each school. We remain committed to introducing a formula that is fair, while also ensuring sufficient stability across the system.