Schools: Finance
Commons · Question 63437 · Tabled 27 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to revise the funding formula used to allocate the dedicated schools grant in areas which have a high cost of living but low area cost adjustment.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 2 Jul 2025
The department uses the schools national funding formula (NFF) to distribute core funding for 5 to 16 year-old pupils (reception through to year 11) in mainstream state-funded schools in England.The area cost adjustment (ACA) means that funding allocation...