Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2018 to Question 151192 on Academies: Expenditure, when he plans to publish the recipients of the Multi-Academy Trust Development and Improvement Fund on the website Gov.UK; and how much funding was allocated from that fund in 2017-18.

We expect details of the recipients of the Multi-Academy Trust Development and Improvement Fund (MDIF) to be published on GOV.UK in September 2018.

Trusts applied for MDIF in Autumn 2017 and it was originally anticipated that funding would be delivered in the 17-18 financial year, however, changes to the application assessment timetable and grant agreement negotiations meant that this was not possible. Funding will be allocated from subsequent year’s budgets.