Schools: Warrington
(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will assess the effect of recent changes in high needs expenditure in Warrington on the budget in that area for other schools and services funded through the schools' funding block.
Local authority school and high needs expenditure is published in section 251 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.
Warrington Borough Council’s schools and high needs expenditure for the financial years 2013-14 to 2016-17 is as follows:
| 2013-14* (outturn) | 2014-15* (outturn) | 2015-16 (budget) | 2016-17 (budget) |
Schools expenditure | £121.1 million | £86.9 million | £120.8 million | £122.5 million |
High needs expenditure | £14.0 million | £18.3 million | £17.7 million | £17.9 million |
* Figures are after academy recoupment so are not comparable to 2015-16 and 2016-17, which are before academy recoupment
The figures show that both schools expenditure and high needs expenditure are budgeted to increase between 2015-16 and 2016-17.