Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the capital funding requirements for school building improvements at (a) John Bramston Primary School, (b) Little Heath School, (c) Mossford Green Primary School and (d) Ilford County High School in the London Borough of Redbridge.

We have allocated over £7.4 billion in condition funding since 2015 to maintain and improve school buildings. In addition, the Priority School Building Programme is rebuilding or refurbishing school buildings in the worst condition across the country, covering over 500 schools.

Schools and those responsible for school buildings receive condition funding through different routes depending on their size and type. For the financial year 2019-20, Redbridge local authority received a school condition allocation of £5,149,009 to invest in maintaining its schools, including John Bramston Primary School, Little Heath School, Mossford Green Primary School and Illford County High school. In addition, schools receive their own devolved formula capital allocation to invest in small projects to meet their own priorities.

Since 2015, school condition allocations have been informed by consistent condition data on our school estate. A recently completed Condition Data Collection (CDC) will provide an updated high-level assessment of the condition of state funded schools in England and help inform future funding policy and programmes. The CDC programme visited nearly all state-funded schools in England and a report has been shared with each school.