Written question asked by Henry Smith (Conservative) on Monday, 1 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 3 November 2010. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Thursday, 25 November 2010 on behalf of the Department for Education.

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Question: (2) whether funding previously allocated by his Department to the Every Child a Reader and Every Child Counts programmes will be divided between all schools when calculating the baseline budget for 2010-11.

Answer: Funding for Every Child a Reader (ECAR) and Every Child Counts (ECC) is part of the schools budget announced in the spending review, which will increase by 0.1% in real terms each year. Details of school funding allocations for 2011-12 will be announced later in the autumn. It will be for local authorities, in consultation with their Schools Forum, to decide whether to take account of the previous level of this funding in each school when making their 2011-12 allocations to schools.

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