Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was given to schools in each local authority area to meet the National Funding Formula funding floor in 2021-22.

Local authorities set a minimum funding guarantee (MFG) that protects schools from excessive year-on-year losses in per-pupil funding. The floor in the national funding formula (NFF) mirrors the operation of the MFG in the local formulae and is important for ensuring the affordability of the MFG in the local formulae.

Schools do not receive any funding from the NFF floor. Instead, the NFF funding calculated through the floor is given to local authorities as part of their overall Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations. The amounts individual schools receive will instead depend on the local formula MFG.

5,949 schools and academies are in receipt of MFG payments, across 151 local authorities. These figures are available through the published school allocations for the 2020-21 financial year, available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics/2021-22.

The attached table lists the volumes and amount of funding per local authority.