Education Estate: Condition Improvement Fund
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The Minister for Schools (Nick Gibb)
My noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for the School System and Student Finance (Barroness Barran) has made the following statement. East Midlands £41,964,017 East of England £81,316,668 London £58,711,968 North East £8,434,081 North West £58,450,018 South East £106,179,820 South West £23,104,444 West Midlands £37,930,631 Yorkshire and the Humber £39,738,336
Today, I am announcing the allocation of almost £456 million for 1,033 Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) projects across 859 academies, sixth-form colleges and voluntary aided schools across England to maintain and improve the condition of the education estate.
This funding is provided to enable schools to deliver well maintained and safe facilities that support a high-quality education. Since March 2015 CIF has delivered over 11,000 projects and continues to deliver over 1,200 projects across the school estate with essential maintenance projects.
The CIF funding allocated for projects by region is:
Amounts of funding awarded to individual schools are not being published, as publishing this information would undermine the school’s ability to obtain best value from contractors. However, funding information on completed CIF projects is available to view on www.gov.uk. Details of today’s announcement are being sent to all CIF applicants and a list of successful projects will be published on www.gov.uk. Copies will be placed in the House Library.
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