Rural Schools — [Mr Mike Weir in the Chair]
2:46 pm
Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border, Conservative)
I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. Perhaps I was not clear enough. The national average of school funding is £5,140 per pupil. Cumbria is in receipt of £4,840, so the point is exactly the one that he makes. If sparsely populated rural areas such as Cumbria are compared with urban areas, we receive less.