Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have paid in grants to Askham Bryan College for the development of assets and projects relating to the Newton Rigg estate in each of the last seven years; and for which projects any such grants were provided.

In the 2020-21 financial year, the department provided all further education colleges and designated institutions with the Further Education Capital Allocation for addressing estate in poor condition. £200 million was allocated in total, and Askham Bryan received £845,748. The college is able to invest that funding according to the condition need identified in the department’s Condition Data Collection or its own survey.

Between the 2015-16 financial year and the present, Local Economic Partnerships have had devolved responsibility for allocating skills capital funding via the Local Growth Fund. There is no record of funding for the Newton Rigg campus.

Before 2015, capital funding for colleges was the responsibility of the Skills Funding Agency. In the 2014-15 financial year, a grant of £139,593 was paid to Askham Bryan College. There is no record as to whether any part of that funding was used in relation to Newton Rigg campus