Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential effect of the new school funding formula on the level of funding for schools in Warrington North constituency in real terms for each of the next three years.

Dedicated Schools Grant allocations for 2017-18 have been confirmed and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018.

We are currently consulting on a national funding formula for schools, which will be implemented from 2018-19. Our proposals for funding reform will mean that schools will, for the first time, receive a consistent and fair share of the schools budget, so that they can give every child the opportunity to reach their full potential.

As a result of our proposals, in the first year of the formula, Warrington local authority would see an overall funding increase in schools funding of 0.5%. Illustrative allocations for the second year of the formula have been not been calculated, but by the time of full implementation of the formula, Warrington schools would see funding gains of 0.6%.

For schools in Warrington North, the proposals would mean an overall funding increase of 0.9%, or £0.5 million.

Schools that are due to gain funding will do so quickly, with increases of up to 3% in per pupil funding in 2018-19 and a further 2.5% in 2019-20. No school will lose more than 1.5% per year or 3% overall per pupil as a result of our formula.