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# Minister insists school funding will not be cut across Lichfield and Burntwood
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/minister-insists-school-funding-will-not-be-cut-across-lichfield-and-burntwood/
- Published: 2017-07-04T16:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2017-07-05T08:39:01.000Z
- Description: A Government Minister has vowed that no schools in Lichfield and Burntwood will see funding cuts.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Education, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:27, News

A Government Minister has vowed that no schools in Lichfield and Burntwood will see funding cuts.

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant had questioned the impact of the Fairer Funding Formula in a House of Commons debate.

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Nick Gibb MP. Pic: Policy Exchange

But schools minister Nick Gibb insisted budgets would be protected.

“No school in his \[Michael Fabricant’s\] constituency will see a cut in funding,” he explained. “As we have said, we are spending record amounts of money on school funding — £41 billion this year rising to £42 billion next year — and we are moving to a fairer way of distributing that funding.

“We said in our manifesto that even where the new fairer funding system would have resulted in a cut in funding to some schools, that will no longer be the case, so no school will see a cut in per-pupil funding under this Government.”

Mr Fabricant said he was pleased to see his concerns over the region taken on board.

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Michael Fabricant

“Schools have been under huge pressure as running costs have exceeded their income per pupil so I am pleased that the Government has recognised the problem and will provide top-up funding,” he said. “Staffordshire has always received less than other counties per pupil and this has continued unchecked for over 30 years, so I welcomed the new Fairer Funding Formula when it was introduced.

“But I was shocked and dismayed when the schools minister told me before the June election that while two-thirds of schools in the Lichfield constituency would get a funding hike, one-third would receive a cut in income. At the time, I told the minister in the Chamber that this was ‘unacceptable’, so I am glad that the Government has taken this on board.

“We must now ensure that funding keeps pace with increased schools running costs.”