Educational Funding Per Pupil

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 23 October 2019.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 1:52, 23 October 2019

I believe education needs a greater proportion of the Welsh budget, and that a highly educated workforce is the best economic development tool we can have. On the additional money announced for the teachers' pay award, which you announced yesterday, is it going to be distributed via the funding formula to local authorities and then on to schools, which will produce winners and losers, or allocated to schools to meet the increased costs on a cost basis? It does make a huge difference which way you do it, because if you do it by just putting it in the formula, you'll have winners and losers amongst local authorities and winners and losers amongst schools.