Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much additional funding schools in Wansbeck constituency have received for additional personal protective equipment and extra cleaning costs since the start of the covid-19 outbreak, by school.

The first window for schools to claim funding back for exceptional costs due to the Covid-19 closed on 21 July 2020. Claims made by schools at that time in the Wansbeck parliamentary constituency for cleaning costs where there had been a case or suspected case of Covid-19 between March and July, are detailed in the attached table.

Claims for personal protective equipment were among those cost categories outside of the published scope of the scheme. An assessment is currently being undertaken to determine which of these other costs can be included, and we expect to write to schools and academies in November to confirm the outcome of that assessment.