Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the research on the use of carbon dioxide monitors in schools referred to in his letter of 17 August 2022 to Geoff Barton, General Secretary, ASCL.

The Department carried out a £25 million programme to improve ventilation in all education settings in the 2021/22 academic year. The Department provided over 386,000 CO₂ monitors to state-funded early years, schools, and further education providers, to support them in being able to assess ventilation in their setting.

The Department has also provided over 8,000 air cleaning units to state-funded schools with poorly ventilated teaching spaces that cannot be otherwise remedied. Applications were assessed against strict criteria that were set out in guidance.

Regarding the question on publishing the research on the use of CO₂ monitors, the Department already published research on the use of CO₂ monitors on 24 January 2022 this year, with further information added to this release on 30 June 2022.

The full publication is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/co2-monitor-survey-and-applications-for-air-cleaning-units.