Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2023 to Question 135240 on Schools: Houghton and Sunderland South, how many (a) civil servants and (b) hours of civil service time were spent on the preparation of the Condition Data Collection reports.

Preparation of reports for schools and responsible bodies for the first Condition Data Collection (CDC1), from 2017 to 2019, included input from civil servants and suppliers working on the programme, including four surveying organisations, a Technical Services Manager and an IT provider. The data for each report underwent robust quality assurance prior to a timely release to schools and responsible bodies.

There were five Full Time Equivalent civil servants working on the preparation of CDC1 reports.

The Department does not hold historical records on the number of hours civil servants specifically spent on report preparation for CDC1. For the successor programme, CDC2, the Department estimates that it took 814 hours of civil service time on the preparation of reports that were released in December 2022.