Speeches

Michael Fabricant – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Fabricant on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the education funding per pupil is in (a) Staffordshire and (b) Brent for 2014-15.

David Laws

The information requested is provided in the table below.

Funding per pupil (Dedicated schools grant) 2014-15

Early years block per pupil, 2014-15

Higher needs block

2014-15 total*

Staffordshire

£4,310

£3,515

£62.19 million

Brent

£5,066

£5,930

£55.54 million

*High needs funding is no longer allocated on a per-pupil basis.

In addition, schools will receive money from the pupil premium for pupils recorded on the January 2014 School Census: £1,300 for each primary pupil, and £935 for each secondary pupil, known to have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years; £1,900 per pupil for each pupil recorded as adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or who has left care under a Special Guardianship or Residence Order; and £300 for each pupil whose parents were in the armed services in the last four years or is in receipt of a child pension from the Ministry of Defence.