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David Lammy MP

describes the school finance policy as unfair, because the cash has been extended to families who have escaped poverty

The premium amounts, the flagship policy of the coalition to help poor children, is spreading in smaller portions so that everyone benefits children in affluent areas and poor urban areas, according to an analysis released Friday.

Buckinghamshire and Surrey are among the 10 areas in which the student increase over premium in percentage terms this year, Labour MP David Lammy has been found, while Tower Hamlets is one the lowest percentage increases.

The premium, an extra £ 600 per child in school funding, intended to benefit "the poorest children in England" and is a totem of political Liberal Democrats, who regard it as a great victory for the coalition.

However, public spending on students of premium more than doubled in Buckinghamshire and Surrey this year. In both counties, 11% of children live in poverty. In Tower Hamlets, where the premium of students has increased by 60%, more than half of children living in poverty.

The premium of students spread more widely this year after the government decided to invest in all students who have been entitled to free school meals for the past six years, not just those who currently receive free meals.

This expands the money to a band of students who have escaped poverty and family circumstances have improved.

The effect of the change was to increase spending in dense areas in southern England, but grew more modestly in some of the poorest urban areas.

The total amount spent on politics is growing. Funding for the premium of students has doubled to 1.25 billion pounds this year and is due to an increase of £ 2.5 billion by 2014-15. But Lammy, MP for Tottenham, said he could not target the poorest children, because too much money goes to the richest regions. "Ministers can not stand as guardians of justice when his flagship policy is so unfair," he said.

Outside the small county of Rutland, the 10 biggest winners in terms of percentage increase are: Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Wiltshire, Suffolk, Surrey, North Yorkshire, Hampshire, Bath and North East Somerset, Central Bedfordshire, and Windsor and Maidenhead.

excluding Isles of Scilly, the ten biggest losers are the Wirral, Middlesbrough, Halton, South Tyneside, City of Kingston upon Hull, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Islington .

However, even after the increases, the amount spent in the poorest regions are higher. For example, schools in Tower Hamlets receive £ 13.9 million this year, an increase of 5 million pounds last year. Schools in Buckinghamshire will receive £ 4.7 million, an increase of 2.5 pounds.

"The truth is that the current funding system has not worked and that is why we are reforming the system - .. For thousands of children will eventually get the extra support they need for Success "

Sibieta Lucas, senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: "It has always been a tension between the propagation of the premium of students as widely as possible and Guidance the most deprived areas

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