Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated by the Education and Skills Funding Agency in Wellingborough constituency in each year since 2017.

The department is able to provide the schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for schools in the Wellingborough constituency from the 2020/21 financial year. This covers mainstream schools funding only. The schools NFF determines school revenue funding for all mainstream schools in England, although schools’ actual allocations are based on local authorities’ local funding formulae. Constituency figures are based on an aggregate of schools’ NFF allocations.

Funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), which includes revenue funding for schools, high needs, early years, and central school services since 2018/19, is available at local authority level only. Wellingborough was within Northamptonshire for the 2017/18 to 2020/21 financial years. On 1 April 2021, Northamptonshire split into two unitary authorities (North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire) with Wellingborough residing within North Northamptonshire.

Pupil Premium provides additional funding to support disadvantaged pupils. Allocations are calculated based on the number of eligible pupils in each school. Wellingborough’s NFF and Pupil Premium allocations, alongside Northamptonshire’s DSG allocations, can be found in the attached tables.

In addition to this core revenue funding, schools receive funding through a number of separate streams, including: Universal Infant Free School Meals funding; PE and sport premium funding; and the recovery premium and the National Tutoring Programme to support education recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. The department also has a capital budget, which funds a range of programmes for schools such as the Schools Rebuilding Programme. Information about this programme is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme.

The department also provides funding via the 16 to 19 funding formula for:

• Students aged 16 to 19
• Students up to the age of 25 when they have an Education, Health and Care plan
• Fourteen to sixteen year-olds who are directly enrolled into eligible further education (FE) institutions
• Home educated students of compulsory school age at any FE college

This is allocated via a variety of institutions including sixth-form and FE colleges, school and academy sixth-forms, independent learning providers, local authorities, special post-16 institutions (SPIs) and some higher education institutions.

The funding amounts allocated to institutions between 2017/18 and 2023/24 is available at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations.

The department is also continuing to invest in education and skills training for adults through the Adult Education Budget (AEB). This funding totalled £1.34 billion in 2022/23.

The AEB fully funds or co-funds skills provision for eligible adults aged nineteen and above from pre-entry to Level 3, to help them gain the skills they need for work, an apprenticeship or further learning.

AEB allocations to training providers are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2022-to-2023.