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Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase funding certainty for schools over a multi-year period.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase funding certainty for schools over a multi-year period.

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The overall core schools budget is increasing by £3.7 billion in the 2025/26 financial year, meaning that it will total £65.3 billion, compared to £61.6 billion in the 2024/25 financial year. This is a 6% overall increase.The government is considering how...

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