As the hon. Gentleman will know, the national funding formula is providing every local authority with more money for every pupil in every school.

The UK Government deplores any act of incitement to violence; the Secretary of State and I raised the issue of incitement during our respective bilateral meetings with senior Palestinian counterparts in January 2018. Our partnership with the Palestinian Authority (PA) includes a commitment from the Palestinian leadership to adhere to the principle of non-violence and to tackle language and avoid actions that could incite violence or hatred. The UK continues to urge the Palestinian leadership to uphold this principle.

The Department will shortly publish evidence on the affordability of increases to teachers’ pay as part of the Department’s input to the School Teachers’ Review Body consideration of teachers’ pay for 2018/19. Support staff pay is negotiated by local authorities and academies.

In July 2017, the Department announced an additional £1.3 billion for schools and high needs across 2018-19 and 2019-20, in addition to the schools budget set at Spending Review 2015. This means funding per pupil for schools and high needs will be maintained in real terms for the next two years. Alongside our substantial investment, the Department is committed to helping schools improve outcomes for pupils and promote social mobility by getting the best value from all of their resources

Support staff pay is negotiated by local authorities and academies. We are aware of the offer and will continue to support schools in managing their budgets.

The new National Funding Formula, backed by £1.3 billion of additional investment, will allocate, as a minimum, £3,500 per pupil for all primary schools, and £4,800 per pupil for all secondary schools, by 2019-20. As the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed, overall schools funding is being protected at a national level in real terms per pupil over the next two years. Alongside this substantial investment, we are committed to helping schools to improve their efficiency, so that they can continue to improve pupil outcomes and promote social mobility.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education routinely discusses matters of shared interest with Cabinet colleagues, including my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Department will shortly publish evidence on the affordability of increases to teacher pay as part of the input to the School Teachers’ Review Body consideration on teachers’ pay for 2018/19.

In July 2017 the Government announced an additional £1.3 billion for schools and high needs across 2018-19 and 2019-20, in addition to the schools budget set at the Spending Review 2015. This means funding per pupil will be maintained in real terms for the next two years. Following the Government’s announcement in September 2017, under the national funding formula school funding will be distributed based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in England.

The Department has not recently undertaken or commissioned any research on school support staff pay, as it is negotiated by local authorities and academies themselves.

In 2011, the Department did publish a topic note on support staff, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-support-staff-topic-paper.

Support staff pay is negotiated by local authorities and academies themselves. The Department has no remit in this area and as such has not held any recent meetings on support staff pay.

I am sorry but the department does not collect this data.

We know how important it is for pupils to get a good start in the morning and eat a healthy breakfast. We are investing in a breakfast club programme as announced in the Childhood Obesity Plan in August 2016. This committed £10 million a year of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy to expand breakfast club provision in up to 1,600 schools. Further details of the programme will be announced in due course.

The current school system has delivered places where they are needed, on time, to ensure that every child has a school place, with 735,000 new school places created between 2010 and 2016.

39 schools have been opened and then closed since 2010. These are listed in the attached table. The Department does not record the number of pupils on a school roll at the time of closing.

The current school system has delivered places where they are needed, on time, to ensure that every child has a school place, with 735,000 new school places created between 2010 and 2016.

The 13 schools that have been opened and have since closed in the middle of a school year since 2010 are listed in the table below. The Department does not record the number of pupils on a school roll at the time of closing.

[1] Weston Academy was an existing LA Community School that converted to become an academy and then closed during the period.