Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided per pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in Batley and Spen constituency (A) in cash terms and (B) at 2017 prices in each financial year for the last 17 years.

The Department primarily allocates capital and revenue funding at local authority level. Batley and Spen lies within Kirklees local authority, who are responsible for determining how this funding is distributed in their area.

The allocations listed below are for the five years from 2011-12. These include: devolved formula capital, school condition allocations and basic need allocations.

Funding distributed to academies and Multi Academy Trusts is not included, as they often allocate funding across LA boundaries.

More detail on funding for new free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools; on schools and school blocks being rebuilt under the Priority Schools Building Programmes; and funding allocated through the Condition Improvement Fund can be accessed via the links below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/psbp-list-of-successful-applicants

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/priority-school-building-programme-2-list-of-successful-schools

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/condition-improvement-fund

The data for capital funding allocated to local areas prior to 2011-12 is not readily available.

The table in the attachment (Annex A) shows average per-pupil revenue funding figures from financial year 2000-01 to 2016-17. These figures are in cash terms.

Since 2011-12, schools have received the Pupil Premium which targets funding to help pupils from the most disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their full potential. Total Pupil Premium allocations for Kirklees local authority for each year are shown in the following table in cash terms:

The Government publishes GDP deflators that can be used to understand the impact of inflation over time. These are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-march-2017-spring-budget-2017.