Pupils: Per Capita Costs

(asked on 18th July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Birmingham Northfield constituency, (b) Birmingham, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Catherine McKinnell Portrait
Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 26th July 2024

The tables below provide average per-pupil funding from 2020/21 to 2024/25.

For Birmingham, the West Midlands and England, the figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). All of the figures in table one exclude growth funding but include premises and additional funding from grants.

The DSG is allocated at local authority level, and as such the equivalent figures are not available for Birmingham Northfield constituency. The constituency level data for Birmingham Northfield is therefore instead calculated based on the notional schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The figures in table two are not comparable to those in table one, not only because DSG funding cannot be aggregated down to constituency level, but also because the context of the funding figures are not the same. The figures in table two do not include the money that schools in the Birmingham Northfield constituency have received through additional grants, such as the Schools Supplementary Grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG), therefore making the constituency-level funding appear to rise slower than that of the others presented.

Table one

Year

DSG Schools Block per-pupil funding

Birmingham

West Midlands

England

​2020-21

£5,162

£4,823

£4,845

​2021-22

£5,518

£5,198

£5,212

​2022-23

£5,830

£5,506

£5,534

​2023-24

£6,144

£5,815

£5,838

2024-25

£6,244

£5,931

£5,957

Table two

NFF Schools Block per-pupil funding *

Year

Birmingham Northfield constituency

​2020-21

£5,429

​2021-22

£5,562

​2022-23

£5,707

​2023-24

£5,991

2024-25

£6,304

* The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area.

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