Schools: York

(asked on 22nd January 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Hugh Bayley
(Labour - York Central)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital the Government has provided for investment in York schools in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Portrait
David Laws
This question was answered on 27th January 2015

The following table shows capital funding for the financial years 2005-06 onwards.

£ million

City of York

Capital allocations1

PFI (private finance initiative) credits2

2005-06

10.7

—

2006-07

23

—

2007-08

19.3

—

2008-09

26.7

—

2009-10

23.1

—

2010-11

18.4

—

2011-12

8.0

n/a

2012-13

8.7

n/a

2013-14

8.5

n/a

2014-15 (provisional)

6.5

n/a

Notes
1. Capital allocations includes capital grant and supported borrowing allocations.
2. PFI credit allocations, where applicable are counted at financial close. PFI credits were not made after 2010-11.

3. Figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000.

4. Capital allocations are made to York Unitary Authority for local authority maintained schools.
5. — indicates that no funding was given in that year.

The capital figures provided show the capital funding allocated to York City Council and its schools through all of the Department for Education’s capital programmes over the period requested. These figures include the formulaic capital allocations such as those for Basic Need and Capital Maintenance, and those for more targeted programmes such as the Primary Capital Programme and Building Schools for the Future.

Since the formation of the Education Funding Agency in April 2012 major efficiency savings have been made in the cost of building new schools. We have seen the cost of new schools cut by about 35% compared to schools procured under the Building Schools for the Future programme.

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