Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value is of the total assets held by free schools; and what proportion of such assets were formerly held by public bodies.

Sites used by free schools are revalued when all construction work is complete. Costs of sites at the time of acquisition for individual free schools are published on gov.uk when a project's capital costs are no longer considered to be commercially sensitive i.e. when the construction contract has been signed. Data on 49 free schools has been published at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools.

Around a third of permanent sites acquired by the Education Funding Agency for free schools were previously owned by a public body.