Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, further to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237753, if he will publish the (a) schools awaiting rebrokering and (b) the trusts to which those schools most recently belonged.

As at 27 March 2019, our records show that 93 academies are in the process of transferring to different trusts.

The department does not publish the list of schools awaiting transfer as this could be obstructive to the process of managing those transfers in the best interests of pupils.

Academies may transfer to other trusts in a range of circumstances. In some cases, the relevant Regional Schools Commissioner may be intervening due to concerns about academy performance. In other cases, an academy may be moving trust as part of an agreed voluntary arrangement.