School Finance

Answer: In developing our proposals for the new dedicated schools grant, we considered with our partners whether there should be a mobility factor in the distribution of funding for local authorities and decided against it. Of course local authorities can already take account of pupil mobility in their local funding formulae. We will announce in the near future our final decisions on the distribution of the new dedicated schools grants for 2006–07 and 2007–08.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Thursday, 24 November 2005 by Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat).

Question: If she will revise the funding formula for schools to take greater account of the mobility of school populations.

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