Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant of the Answer of 27 September to Question 44953 on Schools: Finance, how much funding schools in Sefton Central have received in the 2021-2022 academic year as of 14 November 2022; and what estimate he has made of his expected expenditure in those schools in that constituency in the 2023-24 academic year.

Schools in Sefton Central attracted over £68.6 million in the 2021/22 financial year, based on the schools National Funding Formula. This is an extra £2.6 million compared to the 2020/21 financial year. This represented an increase of 3.5% per pupil for their pupil-led funding compared to the 2020/21 financial year. Constituency figures are based on an aggregate of school allocations.

Core schools' funding is £4 billion higher this year than last year; and the additional funding announced in the 2022 Autumn Statement means it will rise by another £3.5 billion next year. Taken together, that means a 15% increase in funding in two years. The Department will set out its plans for allocation of the additional funding provided by the Autumn Statement shortly.

Information on school expenditure for maintained schools can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data, and here for academies: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/academies-sector-annual-reports-and-accounts.