Education written question – answered at on 9 July 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have attracted payment of the pupil premium in (a) Bromsgrove constituency and (b) Worcestershire since its inception.
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. Pupil Premium funding is provided to schools which have on roll pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (the deprivation premium); children in care who have been continuously looked after for at least six months (the looked after child premium); and children whose parents are serving in the armed forces (the service child premium).
In the 2011-12 financial year 1,170 pupils in Bromsgrove were eligible for either the deprivation premium or service child premium. It is not possible to identify, at constituency level, the number of pupils recorded as being in care or recorded in the alternative provision census.
The number of pupils eligible for the pupil premium in 2012-13 has not yet been confirmed but the provisional estimate is that 1,820 pupils will be eligible for the deprivation premium or the service child premium in Bromsgrove. This estimate is based on January 2011 school census data and data for pupils eligible for FSM since 2006. It reflects the decision to extend eligibility for the deprivation premium to those eligible for FSM in the previous six years.
In the 2011-12 financial year, 9,820 pupils were eligible for the pupil premium in Worcestershire. The provisional estimate on the same basis as that for Bromsgrove for the 2012-13 financial year is that 13,660 pupils in Worcestershire will be eligible for the pupil premium. These figures include pupils eligible for the deprivation premium, the service child premium and the looked after child premium.
The actual number of pupils eligible for the pupil premium in the 2012-13 financial year will be confirmed shortly.
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