Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost of constructing a new (a) primary and (b) secondary school was in each year since 2015.

New school buildings are delivered by local authorities, the department and other bodies.

The average cost of constructing new primary and secondary schools can be found in the national cost benchmarking study, published at: https://documents.hants.gov.uk/property-services/NationalSchoolDeliveryBenchmarkingreport.pdf. This report contains cost information on local authority delivered schools and department delivered schools, which are broken down each year from 2012 onwards. The primary school section can be found on page 10.

Standards for new school buildings change over time, for example, to increase sustainability requirements, so care should be taken in comparing costs directly year to year.