The figures are revealed in the published rates of funding for local authorities in the spring term, which has been published by the Department for Education.
The DfE also confirmed that it would go ahead with calculating spring term funding on the basis of January 2021 census numbers, not continuing with the last two terms' model of basing funding on pre-pandemic numbers.
The only exception will be for local authorities where attendance is less than 85 per cent of 2020 levels at the time of the census, but increases during the course of the term, in which case a top up will be provided up to a cap of 85 per cent.
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