New Schools Network

(asked on 28th January 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Dan Jarvis Portrait
Dan Jarvis
(Labour - Barnsley North)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the contract awarded by her Department to the New Schools Network expires.

Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

Following a competitive bidding process, in January 2014, the department approved grant funding for New Schools Network (NSN) to provide pre-application support to parents, teachers and community groups and others hoping to open free schools. The grant also enables NSN to support free schools in the pipeline and open free schools.

The grant has a total value of £2,961,200 and runs from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2016.

It is worth £1,486,200 in 2015-16. The department may extend the grant to 2016-17.

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