ONLY eight per cent of the pupil premium is likely to go to rural areas, schools minister Nick Gibb told Ryedale’s MP Anne McIntosh.
She asked him to estimate how many pupils in rural and urban areas would benefit from the scheme under which schools are paid extra per pupil receiving free school meals.
Mr Gibb told her in the House of Commons that the Government had looked at the numbers of qualifying pupils in the January 2010 school census and that suggested the money would be split 92 per cent for urban areas, eight per cent for rural areas, but the final allocation would be based on the January 2011 school census.
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