Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 72060

Schools: Per Capita Costs

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

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

Georgia Gould
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...

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