Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much revenue support has been provided by his Department to (a) Baker Dearing Educational Trust, (b) New Schools Network and (c) Studio Schools Trust in each financial year since 2009.

The Baker Dearing Educational Trust (BDT) receives a grant from the Department for Education to provide advice, guidance and pre-approval support to proposer groups developing applications to establish University Technical Colleges.

New Schools Network (NSN) receives a grant from the department, which it uses to support the free schools programme and to provide the Academy Ambassadors Service, which finds senior business figures to join academy trust boards as non-executive directors.

BDT’s and NSN’s annual accounts are available from Companies House webpages at https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07390138/filing-history and https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06953650/filing-history respectively. The accounts include details of their incomes, including grant funding from the department.

No government funding was ever provided to the Studio Schools Trust.