Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his planned timetable is for opening the next round of funding for capital building programmes of schools.

The department will select up to 300 schools this year for the School Rebuilding Programme, from the 1,105 nominations received from local authorities, academy trusts and dioceses by 31 March. We announced 61 schools in July to maintain the pace of delivery and begin to address some of the poorest condition schools. These were prioritised on the basis of their condition.

The department is still assessing all other nominations, including any supplementary evidence provided. No nominated school has been ruled out at this point and that includes All Saints Roman Catholic School in York, which is still being assessed. The department plans to make another announcement later this year to confirm further schools selected.

Once we have selected schools for up to 300 places this year, we will have allocated 400 out of the 500 places available in the School Rebuilding Programme. We are reserving 100 places on the programme for a future round to be announced at a later date.