Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to line 2 of table 2.1 of the Spring Budget 2017 and pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2017 to Question 128, how much of the funding for new free schools and new selective schools allocated in the 2017-18 financial year has been spent to date.
The Budget 2017 allocated additional capital funding to enable free school applications to be approved in 2017-18 and beyond. We will confirm arrangements in due course.