Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of maintained schools that are at risk of flooding.

The Department does not hold figures for the number of maintained schools at risk of flooding. The Climate Change Committee has advised that 10,710 schools across England are at risk of some form of flooding once every 75 years, but this could mean anything from a few inches to a few feet of water. Because of this uncertainty, the Department is conducting a more detailed flood risk assessment as part of the wider climate risk assessment, which will be published by the end of 2023, in line with the commitment in the Department’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy.