Schools: Per Capita Costs
Commons · Question 72060 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lisa Smart
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that per pupil school funding is spread evenly across (a) Greater Manchester and (b) other regional areas.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 8 Sep 2025
The schools national funding formula (NFF) distributes core funding for 5 to 16-year-old pupils in mainstream state-funded schools in England.The NFF allocates funding to local authority areas, based on schools’ and pupils’ characteristics. In the current...