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Schools: Finance

Answer

[holding answer 16 September 2009]: The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) for 2008-09 to 2010-11 (indicative) for Redbridge and Waltham Forest local authorities is shown in table 1. This covers pupils aged three-15.

Table 1
£ million
	DSG allocation
	2008-09 (final)	2009-10 (final)	2010-11 (indicative)
Redbridge	173.785	184.212	195.516
Waltham Forest	160.125	167.109	180.326

The guaranteed unit of funding for 2008-09 to 2010-11 for Redbridge and Waltham Forest local authority is shown in table 2.

Table 2
£
	Guaranteed unit of funding
	2008-09 (final)	2009-10 (final)	2010-11 (final)
Redbridge	4,214	4,380	4,575
Waltham Forest	4,584	4,747	4,940

Per pupil revenue funding figures for pupils aged three-19 for Redbridge and Waltham Forest local authorities for years 1997-98 and 2005-06 are shown in table 3. These figures are in cash terms.

Table 3
	Local authority revenue funding per pupil (£)
	1997-98	2005-06	Percentage change
Redbridge	2,810	4,420	57
Waltham Forest	3,080	5,060	64
Notes:
1. Price Base: Cash
2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC.
3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DFES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged 3-19 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level.
4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers.
5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £10.
6. Status: Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal.

The revenue per pupil figures shown in table 4 are taken from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 (in table 3 above) because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent.The DSG is based largely on an authority's previous spending.In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block.LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.To provide a comparison for 2008-09 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06 (the baseline); as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.The per pupil revenue funding figures for 2005-06 and 2008-09 for Redbridge and Waltham Forest local authorities are provided in table 4. The figures are for all funded pupils aged three-19 and are in cash terms.

Table 4
	Local authority revenue funding per pupil (£)
	2005-06	2008-09	Percentage change
Redbridge	4,050	4,820	19
Waltham Forest	4,580	5,330	16
Notes:
1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant, School Standards Grant, School Standards Grant (Personalisation) and Standards Fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level.
2. Price Base: Cash
3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three-19
4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10
5. Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal.

The figures for Standards Funds are recorded according to allocation per authority not per pupil, the following table shows the total allocations that Redbridge and Waltham Forest have been awarded in 2009-10 for grants that the honourable member for Leyton and Wanstead requested.

£
Grant name	2009-10 allocation Redbridge	2009-10 allocation Waltham Forest
School Development Grant	9,176,344	12,427,886
School Standards Grant	7,007,793	5,505,573
School Standards Grant (personalisation)	2,212,183	2,498,922
Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant	3,431,578	3,539,416
Extended Schools—Sustainability	724,493	674,446
Extended Schools—Subsidy	179,626	175,360
Extended Schools—Capital	499,804	480,031
Primary Strategy: Targeted Support	810,251	1,171,770
School Lunch Grant	473,777	394,829
Music	342,011	386,625
Harnessing Technology	873,212	766,178
Devolved Formula Capital	5,551,120	4,636,216

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

496 c2305-8W; 291366

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Finance Redbridge Schools Waltham Forest

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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