Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding sources are available for schools with derelict or dilapidated buildings.

The Government has committed to invest over £23 billion in the school estate between 2016-17 and 2020-21.

Since 2015, the Government has invested £5.6 billion to maintain and improve school facilities. In addition, the £4.4 billion Priority School Building Programme is rebuilding or refurbishing those buildings in the very worst condition across the country.

All schools receive a direct payment of devolved formula capital funding. In addition, the Department allocates condition funding to the bodies responsible for school buildings through the following routes:

Local authorities and larger multi academy trusts (MATs), with at least five schools and 3000 pupils, receive School Condition Allocations to invest in the schools for which they are responsible. This funding is calculated formulaically and takes account of the condition of schools. For voluntary aided (VA) schools, the relevant local authority facilitates a local discussion at which organisations representing the VA schools – most commonly the relevant diocese – agree how the funding should be invested.