Question follow-through · 38800
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of the start of the school budget year in April and the academic year in September on schools' ability to budget effectively for staffing
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- School Meals: Standards · 19 Jun 2025
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of the start of the school budget year in April and the academic year in September on schools' ability to budget effectively for staffing
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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25 Mar 2025
Answer published
Schools are generally funded on the basis of their pupil numbers in the previous October census, therefore meaning the funding that schools receive for the 2025/26 funding year will be based on pupil numbers as of October 2024. This practice means that th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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School Meals: Standards
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 5 June 2025 on School Food, HCWS682, what the (a) timeframe and (b) scope of the consultation on revising School Food Standards will be; and whether that consultation