Kevin Brennan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Brennan on 2014-03-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Statement of 13 March 2014 by the Minister for Schools, how much of the funding announced will come from (a) his Department’s budget and (b) the Treasury.

David Laws

The Government has agreed to provide £350 million in 2015-16 to the least fairly-funded local authorities in England. We are able to achieve this without any local authority receiving a cut to its per-pupil schools budget.

We are able to deliver this boost by using money from within our protected schools budget and because HM Treasury will provide additional funding as required.

The Department for Education intends to find the majority of the £350 million from within its existing protected schools budget as determined at the Spending Round in June 2013. Based on current forecasts, the Treasury will provide around £90 million in addition to the Department’s contribution.

The precise level of any additional funding from the Treasury will become clear when we have final data on pupil numbers.