Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will issue guidance to schools and sixth form colleges that they should implement a replacement programme to introduce LED lighting in their buildings.

The Department for Education has no plans at present to issue guidance to schools and sixth form colleges to replace all lighting in schools with LED lights. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) together with the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust take the lead for government on research and publication of advice on LEDs. DECC are currently funding research and product development of LED lighting technology.

Departmental specifications quote the guidance on lighting design for schools produced by the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), specifically Lighting for education, Lighting Guide No 5, published in 2011 (LG5). The Department worked with SLL to produce LG5 which replaced the Department’s Building Bulleting 90 Lighting Design for Schools in 2011. SLL has also published Guidelines for Specification of LED Lighting Products, 2012.