Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost was of opening a university technical college in the last three years.

The total pre-opening revenue expenditure for university technical college projects that opened, or were withdrawn or cancelled in 2010 to 2015 is published on at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-spending-on-open-and-withdrawn-utcs-and-studio-schools

The total pre-opening revenue expenditure for the 11 university technical college projects that opened in 2016 will be published in due course.

The capital costs of completed university technical college projects since 2011 are published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools