Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2022 to Question 97790 on Schools: Repairs and Maintenance, for what reason the outcomes of the most recent Condition Data Collection Programme have not yet been placed in the Library of the House.

The Condition Data Collection (CDC) was one of the largest and most comprehensive data collection programmes in the UK public sector. The key high-level findings of the CDC programme were published in May 2021 in the report ’Condition of School Buildings Survey – Key Findings‘, which can be found at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/989912/Condition_of_School_Buildings_Survey_CDC1_-_key_findings_report.pdf.

The Department is planning to publish more detailed school level CDC data. The Department is still preparing the data but due to the size of the dataset, there has been a delay in publication. As part of that publication, it is the Department’s intention to publish condition grades for individual building elements for all schools included in the CDC programme.