Schools: Finance
(asked on 4th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mainstream (a) primary and (b) secondary schools received a lump sum payment, and for how many schools that lump sum represented (i) less than one per cent, (ii) 2 to five per cent; (iii) five to 10 per cent, (iv) 10 to 20 per cent, (v) 20 to 30 per cent, (vi) 30 to 40 per cent, and (vii) over 50 per cent of their total income.
The table below shows the number of mainstream schools in England that received a lump sum payment in 2018-19 and the proportion of their total income (from the schools block allocation) this represented.
| Primary | Secondary |
Number of schools | 16,756[1] | 3,109 |
Lump Sum | 16,756 | 3,098 |
Less than 1% | 0 | 1 |
1% to 5% | 601 | 2,788 |
5% to 10% | 5,332 | 230 |
10% to 20% | 7,482 | 55 |
20% to 30% | 2,060 | 15 |
30% to 40% | 808 | 4 |
40% to 50% | 326 | 4 |
Over 50% | 147 | 1 |
[1] In line with the published data the figures exclude two primary schools whose data has been suppressed.