Victoria Atkins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Victoria Atkins on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department is making on ensuring that funding is distributed fairly across schools.

Mr Sam Gyimah

The fair distribution of funding is a priority for this Government. A National Funding Formula will ensure that every school is allocated funding fairly and transparently according to need. The first stage of a two part consultation closed last week and we are currently considering the responses. It is important that we get such a significant change right and so we will publish our response to the first stage, and second consultation, later this year.