Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have closed since 2010; and how much (a) revenue and (b) capital expenditure was disbursed on each of those schools.

There are currently 390 open free schools. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. These are:

The primary objective of the Department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer. The Department’s published accounts include the capital and revenue spending for any free schools which has closed.

Capital funding for open free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, where costs have been finalised, is published on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools. The final capital costs for all free schools that have closed since 2010 have not yet been published but are due to be included in the next publication round in coming months.

Schools block funding allocations are published on gov.uk. The link for pre 16 is found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/schools-block-funding-allocations and post 16 data is found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations.

Pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant are published on gov.uk found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings.

We are in the process of making a routine update to the data that we hold on pre and post-opening grant allocations for free schools, UTCs and Studio Schools, following the opening of new schools, in September. We will be publishing the latest data on gov.uk, in the coming weeks.