Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many academies have been transferred from one trust to another, in which years, and what were their names; and what is (1) the total cost, and (2) the individual cost, of those transfers so far.

As part of our strategy to increase further the number of pupils being taught in good or outstanding schools since January 2012, we have re-brokered the attached list of 318 academies to new trusts. Re-brokerage can happen for a number of reasons such as a result of intervention action by the Regional School Commissioner, a single academy trust seeking to join or set up a multi academy trust, or a sponsor deciding to hand back an academy because it no longer has the capacity to run it. We are committed to publishing the costs of individual re-brokerages cases on gov.uk in due course.