Written question asked by Lucy Frazer (Conservative) on Thursday, 21 December 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 January 2018. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Tuesday, 9 January 2018 on behalf of the Department for Education.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to schools in England per pupil in real terms in (a) 1990, (b) 2000 and (c) 2017.
- Answer
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School funding per pupil in cash terms was £2,938 per pupil in 2000-01 and £4,618 per pupil in 2017-18. The Government publishes GDP deflators that can be used to understand the impact of inflation over time. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-march-2017-spring-budget-2017.
These figures are not directly comparable as the figure for 2000-01 also includes funding provided for early years.
In 1990 school funding was included within the local government funding settlement. For this reason, the funding information for 1990 is not readily available. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown that per pupil spending in schools in 2020 is set to be at least 70 per cent higher in real terms than it was in 1990:
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- 2017-19
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- Pupils Per capita costs
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