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Written question asked by Michael Fallon (Conservative) on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 February 2019. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Friday, 1 March 2019 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Pupils: Kent

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the funding per pupil at (a) primary and ( b) secondary school in Kent in (i) 2018-19 and (ii) 2019-20.

Answer

The table below shows the per pupil funding allocated to Kent from the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) in 2018-19 and 2019-20:

Primary

Secondary

2018-19

£3,724

£4,781

2019-20

£3,793

£4,941

These figures do not include funding allocated through the growth, premises, or mobility factors of the national funding formula, which are not distributed on a per pupil basis but total £28.9 million in Kent in 2018-19, and £29.9 million in 2019-20.

Schools also receive funding through several other sources, such as the high needs block of the DSG, from which Kent was allocated £200.8 million in 2018-19; and the Pupil Premium, through which schools in Kent received £57.7 million in 2018-19.

To provide stability for schools, local authorities will continue to be responsible for designing the distribution of funding in their areas in 2018-19 through to 2020-21. Because of this, the actual per pupil amount that schools receive may be different from the amount they are attracting through the national funding formula.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
223932
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Kent Pupils Per capita costs
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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