The Schools Minister Nick Gibb will be questioned by the Education Committee on schools funding and the Prime Minister’s proposals for requiring all 16-to-18-year-olds to study maths.
The cross-party Committee will be interested in how the Government’s pledges to boost funding for schools have been affected by high inflation since early 2022, and the impact that the teacher pay award will have on school budgets.
There will also be questions on the way funding is allocated to different schools around the country using the National Funding Formula. There are proposals for DfE to take over the role that local authorities have in calculating how funding should be distributed to individual schools based on factors such as geography and deprivation.
MPs may also question the Minister and Department for Education officials on how its SEND reforms will be funded, and about the impacts that a lack of funding to deliver Education Health and Care Plans and SEND support can have on children and their families.
