FMRT development meetings
Finance Managers Research Team, consisting of specialist finance managers from member local authorities, was the main forum employed by f40 to develop new formula proposals that the government should consider.
Click the dates to see notes of the team’s meetings:
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Meetings held in 2019
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Meetings held in 2018
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Meetings held in 2017
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Meetings held in 2016
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Meetings held in 2015
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Meetings held in 2014
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Meetings held in 2013/12
Meetings were held with the Funding Team at the Department for Education on:
- 16 October 2019
- 9 April 2019
- 7 April 2016
- 9 December 2015
- 9 September 2015
- 15 June 2015
- 21 January 2015
Parliamentary activity
Briefings were staged for MPs at the House of Commons on:
- 15 May 2019 (click to view presentation – 584 MB: Video included)
- 3 February 2015
- 14 July 2015
- 20 February 2017
- 10 July 2017
- 15 October 2018 (click to view presentation)
Government meetings / Correspondence
- Letter to Chancellor of The Exchequer Philip Hammond MP from the f40 Vice Chairs – 25 June 2019
- Notes of f40’s meeting with the DfE on Tuesday 9 April 2019.
- Letter to Chancellor of The Exchequer Philip Hammond MP – 16 November 2018
- Notes of meeting with the Secretary of State – 25 June 2018
- Secretary of State’s response to f40 letter – 07 February 2018
- F40 Introductory letter to Damian Hinds MP – 10 January 2018
- Secretary of State’s response to f40 letter – 13 October 2017
- Chairs letter to Secretary of State for Education – 21 August 2017
- Letter from Chair to Lead Members in all f40 authorities – 31 July 2017
- Letter from Chair to all MPs representing f40 authority areas – 31 July 2017
- Letter from f40 to Secretary of State about High Needs Spending Pressure – 22 September 2016
- Letter from f40 to Secretary of State requesting uplift in funding in 2017-18 for poorest authorities in the light of the delay to implementing fair funding – 10 August 2016
- Response from Secretary of State – 26 July 2016
- Letter from f40 welcoming the appointment of new Secretary of State – 15 July 2015
- Letter dated 2 November 2015 from f40 Chair Ivan Ould to Education Secretary Nicky Margan.
- Letter dated 20 October 2015 to the Prime Minister signed by 111 Members of Parliament
- Response dated 28 October 2015 from Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to Neil Carmichael MP
- Letter dated 16 September 2015 from Neil Carmichael MP, Chair of the Education Select Committe to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan
- Meeting with Sam Gyimah MP, Minister for Education & Childcare – 18 June 2015
- Letter from Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education – 3 June 2015
- Meeting with Nick Gibb MP, Education Minister – 4 March 2015
- Letter from Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education – 29 August 2014.
- Secretary of State’s response to f40’s letter of 27 January 2014
- f40 letter re Deprivation and NFF consultation to Secretary of State 27 January 2014
- Meeting with the Shadow Secretary of State (21 January 2014)