Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that no school in the London Borough of Newham will see a reduction in (a) cash and (b) per pupil funding in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.

This Government will continue to work to ensure that every child has the opportunity to attend a good school and that all schools are fairly funded. The core schools budget has been protected in real terms since 2010 and is set to rise from £41 billion in 2017-18 to over £42 billion in 2019-20 with increasing pupil numbers. We are considering the more than 25,000 responses we received to the National Funding Formula consultation, and will publish our response in due course.