Question follow-through · 41605
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to restore the core schools budget to 2010 in real terms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 33 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to restore the core schools budget to 2010 in real terms.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
Overall core revenue funding for schools totals almost £61.6 billion for the 2024/25 financial year. The overall core schools budget (CSB) is increasing by £3.2 billion in 2025/26, meaning the CSB will total over £64.8 billion.The latest schools funding s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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