Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of temporary classrooms in Nottinghamshire Local Education Authority area in each of the last six years.

The Department for Education does not hold an estimate of the number of temporary classrooms in Nottinghamshire.

The department does collect information from each local authority on the number of school places (school capacity) in state-funded primary and secondary schools (except special schools) as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The department also collects information on the condition of the school estate through the Property Data Survey. These data collections do not specifically identify the number of temporary classrooms.

Nottinghamshire has been allocated a total of £66.7m between 2011/12 and 2017/18 for new school places. It has also received condition allocations towards the upkeep of its buildings, with an expected allocation of £36.8m between 2014 and 2018.