Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding allocation to schools in Northumberland by the school rebuilding programme.

The Department has provisionally allocated 400 of the 500 available places on the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP), prioritised on the basis of their condition. Of these, two are in Northumberland. A list of these schools and the detailed methodology used to select them is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme.

The funding for each project will depend on the works being undertaken and will be determined when the scope and delivery plans for each project are developed.

In addition to the SRP, the Department also allocates annual condition funding to schools and those responsible for school buildings to maintain and improve the condition of the school estate. Local Authorities receive condition funding through an annual School Condition Allocation (SCA). For the 2022/23 financial year, Northumberland County Council has been allocated £5,851,788 in SCA funding to prioritise across its maintained schools. Academies and voluntary aided (VA) schools in Northumberland will either receive SCA funding through their trust or VA group, or will be instead able to bid into the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for their condition need.

Further detail on condition funding can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding.