Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools spent more than one year in temporary accommodation in each year since 2011.

Since the start of the programme in 2011, around 200 free schools have opened in some form of temporary accommodation. The majority of these schools have spent one to two years in temporary accommodation before moving to their permanent site.

Opening free schools in temporary accommodation has ensured that we have been able to meet a need for places and support free school trusts to open much needed new schools at the earliest opportunity.