Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 83761

Schools: Finance

Tabled: 21 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Mark Garnier

ConservativeWyre Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing in year growth funding to schools affected by additional starts relating to provision intended to (a) prevent and (b) reduce the number of you

Answer

Josh MacAlister
The department funds any 16, 17 or 18-year-old who wants a place in post-16 education.Typically, this is through lagged funding, where the main funding is based on student numbers in the year before. However, for those institutions with a significant grow...

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