Schools: York

(asked on 14th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on improvements to school buildings in (a) York unitary authority and (b) York Central constituency in the period between 1 January 2022 and 31 March 2022.


Answered by
Jonathan Gullis Portrait
Jonathan Gullis
This question was answered on 24th October 2022

The Department has allocated over £13 billion in condition funding since 2015 for improving the condition of school buildings, including £1.8 billion in the 2021/22 financial year.

Schools and those responsible for school buildings receive condition funding through different routes depending upon their size and type. Local authorities, large academy trusts and large voluntary aided bodies receive school condition allocations (SCA) to invest in their schools. In addition, devolved formula capital (DFC) is allocated for individual schools and other eligible institutions to spend on capital projects that meet their own priorities.

As investment of these allocations is determined at a local level and many responsible bodies, such as large academy trusts, cut across local boundaries, it is not possible to break total spend down to constituency level. However, allocations of SCA and DFC for the 2021/22 financial year can be found at: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210701004626/https:/www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding#funding-allocations-for-the-2021-to-2022-financial-year.

Schools that are not part of bodies eligible for SCA are instead eligible to bid to the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF). Annual bidding rounds for CIF are launched in the autumn, and the outcomes are announced in the following spring. CIF funding is released in phased payments as work progresses. For CIF, we do not track monthly expenditure by constituency. We publish final CIF funding amounts on individual projects only once all projects in an annual round have completed, for commercial reasons.

In addition to allocations, the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) will rebuild or refurbish buildings at 500 schools over the next decade. 161 schools have been confirmed to date and details, including contract values once available, are published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-2022-to-2023-approved-schools.

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