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Local Needs Funding to be allocated to 24 education cold spots around the country to help disadvantaged pupils

• Updated: 28 March 2023

£500m for energy efficiency upgrades in schools and colleges, and extra £2bn for schools next year to be split between mainstream schools and high needs

• Updated: 6 December 2022

Up to 75 new free schools including sixth forms, specialist and alternative provision settings will offer tailored support, levelling up opportunities for all.

• Updated: 10 June 2022

Written ministerial statement by Nick Gibb MP about funding arrangements for schools in 2017 to 2018.

• Updated: 20 December 2016

Written ministerial statement by Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah about funding arrangements for schools in 2016 to 2017.

• Updated: 17 December 2015

Read Michael Gove's letter to local authorities confirming revised allocations for play capital funding.

• Updated: 20 October 2010

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government