Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on LocatED between 2015 and 2016.

The Department of Education spent £869,900 on the development of LocatED between July 2015 and 20 September 2016, when LocatED was established as a separate company and listed at Companies House. This figure includes the cost of contracted staff who worked on the acquisition of sites as well as setting up LocatED. Acquisition work would have been carried out regardless of the LocatED set up. Information on LocatED’s grant-in-aid from this date until 31 March 2017 is included within LocatED’s report and accounts to be published and laid before both Houses well before the statutory deadline of 31 December 2017.