Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of her Department's School Rebuilding Programme for Solihull constituency.

The Department has provisionally allocated 400 of the 500 available places on the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) to schools, prioritised on the basis of their condition. Of these, one is in Solihull constituency, and another is in Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. A list of the 400 schools and the methodology to select them, is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme. The Department has also published equality impact assessments following each selection round. These can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-equalities-impact-assessment.

In addition to the SRP, the Department allocates annual condition funding to schools and those responsible for school buildings to maintain and improve the condition of the school estate. Local Authorities receive condition funding through an annual School Condition Allocation (SCA). For the 2022/23 financial year, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has been allocated £2,054,926 in SCA funding to prioritise across its maintained schools. Academies and Voluntary Aided (VA) schools in Solihull will either receive SCA funding through their trust or VA group, or will be instead able to bid into the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for their condition need. More information about condition funding can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding.