| Heading: |
Schools: Rural Areas |
| Question ID: |
1787354 |
| UIN: |
40354 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5255 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Joe Robertson
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| Asking Member handle: |
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Joe Robertson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the sparsity factor in the national funding formula is (a) calculated and (b) applied to small rural schools for 2025-26. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4125 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Catherine McKinnell
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| Answering Member handle: |
CMcKinnellMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@CMcKinnellMP
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| Answer text: |
The government recognises the essential role that small schools play in their communities, many of which are in rural areas. The schools national funding formula (NFF) accounts for the particular challenges faced by small schools in rural areas through th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |