HC Deb 19 October 2001 vol 372 c1385W
Paddy Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make it her policy to allocate per capita support to pupils on the basis of pupils' postcodes. [8906]

Mr. Timms

We are currently developing proposals for a new LEA and school funding system, which is to be introduced in 2003–04. As part of that work we will be considering ways in which data on pupils' postcodes might be used in the new formula, subject to accurate data being available.