Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on introducing a new national funding formula for schools.

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. The Government has committed to increase the school budget further.

We will continue to work to ensure that every pupil has the opportunity to attend a good school and that all schools are fairly funded. 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.