To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has provided to the Music Standards Fund as by (a) baseline funding and (b) the Music Standards Fund grant in each of the last five years. (254360)

The following table shows how much funding has been allocated through the Music Standards Fund in each of the last five years. In addition to the baseline amount of £297.5 million a further £52 million has been allocated to local authorities to encourage the development of programmes designed to increase the number of pupils at KS2 able to learn a musical instrument.