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Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the analysis of school funding published by School Cuts; and whether his Department plans to increase funding for schools in 2024-2025.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

This Government has continually prioritised school funding.

Funding for schools will total over £57.7 billion this year – a rise of over £3.9 billion compared to 2022-23, on top of a £4 billion cash increase last year. That is a 16% increase in just two years.

Funding for schools in 2024-25 will increase again, to £59.6 billion – the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.

The Department for Education provides additional support for schools, including an extensive programme to help them make the most of the funding available to them.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for schools for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Answered by Nick Gibb

High needs funding for children and young people with complex special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) will be rising to £10.1 billion in 2023/24, which is an increase of over 50% from the 2019/20 allocations. This extra funding will help Local Authorities and schools with the increasing costs of supporting them.

Sefton Council’s high needs funding allocation for financial year 2023/24 will be £46 million, which is a 10.9% per head increase compared to the amount of high needs funding allocated in 2022/23. It is not possible to break this funding down to individual constituency level.

The Department does not prescribe in detail how Local Authorities should allocate their high needs funding, but Local Authorities and schools have statutory duties under the Children and Families Act 2014 to support children and young people with SEND.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for schools.

Answered by Nick Gibb

​The 2022 Autumn Statement announced an additional £2 billion for schools, in addition to the funding announced as part of the 2021 Spending Review.​

​Taking the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations and the additional funding announced in the Autumn Statement 2022 together, core schools funding, which includes funding for both mainstream schools and high needs, is increasing by £3.5 billion in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23. The core schools budget will total £57.3 billion in 2023/24 and £58.8 billion in 2024/25.​

​The Institute of Fiscal Studies have said that this additional funding will fully cover expected increases in school costs up to 2024 and will take per pupil spending back to at least 2010 levels in real terms, meaning 2024/25 will be the highest ever level of spending on schools in real terms per pupil.​

​The additional funding will be allocated to mainstream schools through the new Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) in 2023/24. This will be on top of schools’ core funding allocations.​

​A typical primary school with 200 pupils will receive approximately £35,000 in additional funding through the MSAG, and a typical secondary school with 900 pupils will receive approximately £200,000.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to increase funding for schools in Sefton Central constituency.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Government is prioritising further funding for schools. The 2022 Autumn Statement has provided an additional increase in the core schools’ budget, including £2.3 billion in funding for both mainstream schools and high needs in 2023/24 and 2024/25. After adjusting to take account of the removal of the compensation for employer costs of the Health and Social Care Levy, this brings the core schools budget to a total of £58.8 billion in 2024/25, £2 billion greater than published in the 2021 Spending Review.

The Department will set out plans for allocation of the additional funding provided by the Autumn Statement, including plans for funding in Sefton Council, in due course.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will increase funding for schools and colleges in the context of rising inflation.

Answered by Jonathan Gullis

Schools and colleges will benefit from the Government’s Energy Price Guarantee, which commences on the 1 October 2022 and will be available until at least 31 March 2023. This will cap how much schools and colleges need to spend on their energy, giving greater certainty over their budgets over the winter months.

The Government is also providing schools with the largest cash boost in a decade. Following the 2021 Spending Review, core schools funding (including funding for both mainstream schools and high needs) will increase by £7 billion in 2024/25, compared to 2021/22. This includes a £4 billion increase in 2022/23 compared to the previous year which is a cash increase of 7% per pupil. A further £1.5 billion will be available in 2023/24.

The 2021 Spending Review has also made available an extra £1.6 billion for 16-19 education in the 2024/25 financial year, compared with financial year 2021/22.

The 2021 Spending Review announced a total of £19.4 billion of capital funding to support the education sector between 2022/23 and 2024/25. We are investing £6 billion in 2022/23, including £1.8 billion to help maintain and improve the condition of school buildings; over £700 million to create new places and improve facilities for children and young people with SEND or who require alternative provision; and nearly £530 million for new mainstream school places. In addition, we have announced £750 million to create new places and improve facilities for children and young people with SEND or who require alternative provision for 2024; and £940 million to create new mainstream school places needed for 2024 and 2025.

We are investing £2.8 billion of capital funding in skills over the Spending Review period, including funding to improve the condition of the further education college estate. This investment also provides funding for specialist equipment and facilities for T Levels, capital funding for more places for 16-19 year olds, and for Institutes of Technology.

Every school’s circumstances are different, and where schools are in serious financial difficulty, they should contact their local authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Support for colleges is available from the Further Education Commissioner and the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it is his policy to increase funding for schools where English is a second language for a significant proportion of pupils; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Robin Walker

Overall, core schools funding is increasing by £4 billion in the 2022/23 financial year, a 7% increase in cash terms per pupil from the 2021/22 financial year. This includes an increase in mainstream school funding for 5 to 16 year olds of £2.5 billion, which is equivalent to an average 5.8% cash increase, or an average of £300 per pupil.

Through the English as an additional language (EAL) factor in the national funding formula (NFF), schools attract funding for pupils who are classed as having EAL and who have started in the state-funded education system in England within the last three years. This equates to an additional £565 per primary school pupil and £1,530 per secondary school pupil in the 2022/23 financial year, meaning the NFF will distribute a total of £410 million through the EAL factor.

At present, the NFF is used to determine how much funding is provided to each local authority in England, and it is for each local authority, to set a local formula to distribute it between schools. Individual authorities can decide whether to include an EAL factor in their local formulae, and where they do, how much that factor should distribute. The government has made clear its intention to move to a ‘direct NFF’, which will determine schools’ budgets directly rather than through local formulae. This includes requiring all local authorities to use the NFF methodology of EAL3, meaning that all pupils with EAL that have entered the school system during the last three years will attract this funding. This will ensure that all schools in England will be guaranteed to receive funding in respect of their pupils with EAL.

I want the government to look at the budgets for schools. They are really struggling and need more money to help the school pay their bills.

I want the government to review the budgets and give more funding to schools to cover the costs of bills and teachers salaries.

Found: Increase funding for schools so they can pay their bills and not cut jobs

We call for immediate funding from the Government to fully meet the rising costs schools are facing.

Found: Increase funding for schools to ensure that they do not enter deficit

Put more money into schools to spend on help for children with disabilities and special educational needs. For example, this could include more counselling for children with ADHD and autism, and more teachers with the right skills and training to help children with learning disabilities.

Found: Increase funding for schools to support children with disabilities and SEN

We have to see a real terms increase funding for schools today. Teachers' jobs are on the line and students are going to suffer if nothing is done. Thanks to @itvlondon for covering this vital issue. https://t.co/AfLaxNoj4P