Schools: Capital Investment

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding was received by each school that had a Building Schools for the Future project cancelled in 2010 in each of the last 12 years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 10th January 2023

The Department allocates condition funding each year to those responsible for school buildings to improve and maintain the condition of the school estate, including £1.8 billion for the 2022 to 2023 financial year. The majority of annual capital allocations are provided to responsible bodies (such as Local Authorities and large academy trusts) to prioritise locally across their schools instead of directly to individual schools. The Department therefore cannot provide the information requested.

In addition to annual condition allocations the Department also delivers rebuilding programmes centrally. The Department has launched the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) in 2020 with a commitment to 500 rebuilding projects over the next decade, replacing poor condition and ageing school buildings with modern designs, which will be net zero carbon in operation. The Department has now announced 400 schools in total for SRP, reserving 100 places for later in the programme. A list of these schools is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme.

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