Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the (a) annual budget of and (b) the cost of build or refurbishment of each University Technical College in the most recent financial year.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency and the Department accounts, which include capital expenditure on Free Schools, Studio Schools and University Technical Colleges (UTC), are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-funding-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017.

For reasons of commercial confidentiality, we do not disclose the Department’s capital budgets for individual schools. The costs of individual schools, including land purchase costs are also not disclosed before completion and overall costs are finalised. Capital funding for open Free Schools, UTCs and Studio Schools, where costs have been finalised, are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools.

Additional finalised capital data is due to be published in the coming months.