Schools: Finance

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her oral statement of 17 July 2017, Official Report, column 565, how much funding from her Department's central programmes will be allocated to frontline funding for schools in 2019-20.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th September 2017

This Government believes it is right to maximise the amount of funding which is allocated directly to schools, enabling head teachers, to use their professional expertise to ensure that it is spent where it will have the greatest impact.

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 £200 million from central programmes that support schools on relatively narrow areas of their work. We will also release £420 million from the Department's capital budget.

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