Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 20 February 2008
Frank Field (Birkenhead, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to his Department's Green "Paper Raising Expectations", what he expects the additional expenditure per pupil to be on education after 2013.
Jim Knight (Minister of State (Schools and Learners), Department for Children, Schools and Families; South Dorset, Labour)
Per pupil expenditure figures for 2013 will not be available until the next spending review announcement. Total per pupil funding has more than doubled from under £2,500 in 1997-98 to £5,600 in 2007-08. The next three years will see per pupil funding rise by almost 20 per cent. in cash terms to over £6,600 by 2010-11.