The national fairer funding formula for schools is not just being introduced to give all schools more money. It is also being put in place to address historical and arbitrary disparities in funding between local authority areas. Prior to the formula's implementation, Worcestershire's secondary school per pupil funding was just £4,319 and, as the Schools Minister Nick Gibb says here, per pupil funding in areas like Tower Hamlets was £7,965.
That is why I got up in the House of Commons yesterday to support the fairer funding formula and say that there is no moral superiority in arguing to maintain an unfair and imbalanced system of school funding that works to the detriment of counties like Worcestershire.