Speeches

Lisa Nandy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil was in grammar schools in each region in 2015-16.

Nick Gibb

Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 163 schools are identified as ‘selective (grammar).’

The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.

The overall expenditure per pupil in grammar schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:

Region

Number of grammar schools

Expenditure per pupil (£)

East Midlands

15

5,195

East of England

8

5,644

London

19

5,683

North West

18

5,392

South East

55

5,332

South West

20

5,210

West Midlands

17

5,553

Yorkshire and the Humber

6

5,557

England Total

158*

5,404

*Note: There are 5 selective schools which converted to academies during 2014-15 and as such we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.