Question follow-through · 41371
Schools: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of equalising dedicated school grants for schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of equalising dedicated school grants for schools.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Every year the department uses the schools national funding formula (NFF) to distribute core funding for 5- to 16-year-old pupils in mainstream state-funded schools in England. In the current NFF, the vast majority of funding is distributed on the basis o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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