To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his visit to King's Ford Junior School, Colchester, on 9 June, when he will report on the funding requirements for schools with large numbers of children from military families; and if he will make a statement. [124337]

We recognise that turbulence in pupil numbers can have an impact on school budgets and pupil attainment. A local military presence is one cause, influxes of asylum seekers is another. Local authorities are able to include factors in their funding formulae to provide additional funding to take account of high turnover of pupils during the year. Essex local education authority has such a factor.