Question follow-through · 91705

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delaying publishing provisional funding allocations will have any impact on schools’ and local authorities’ budget planning for 2026-27.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 17 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 19 Nov 2025
Answer: 27 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delaying publishing provisional funding allocations will have any impact on schools’ and local authorities’ budget planning for 2026-27.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department published the financial year 2026/27 schools and central school services national funding formula (NFF) on 19 November. High needs allocations will follow shortly.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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