Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her oral statement of 17 July 2017 on school funding, Official Report, column 565, from which projects the £250 million in 2018-19 and £350 million in 2019-20 of funding is being re-allocated to fund increases in the core schools budget.

We are looking across all areas of the Department’s budget for efficiencies. We will maintain funding on the highest value areas, particularly the Government’s priorities. As part of this process, we have said that we will release £200m from central programmes that support schools on relatively narrow areas of their work, as we believe strongly that this funding is most valuable in the hands of head teachers.