To ask the Secretary of State for Education with reference to the Young People's Learning Agency 16 - 19 Funding Statement, which areas will be entitled to the £150 million additional funding for young people in disadvantaged areas in 2011-12; and to how much funding each area will be entitled.

The £150 million of redirected funding will help increase the total funding in the national funding formula which addresses student deprivation to almost £770 million in 2011/12; an increase of more than one-third from 2010/11. This funding will be allocated through the disadvantage uplift and Additional Learner Support elements of the funding formula. It is not possible at present to say which geographical areas, or how much each area, will receive of this deprivation funding as this will not be known until the funding allocations for 2011/12 are finalised and communicated to providers by the end of March.