Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department allocated to the City of York Council for school capital spending in (a) 2010-11 and (b) each subsequent year.

The City of York Council received £46.1million of core capital allocations from the Department for Education from 2011-12 to 2019-20 financial years. A breakdown of spend per year is included in the table below.

This figure includes condition allocations for local authority maintained and voluntary aided schools and basic need funding to the local authority for new school places. It also includes funding provided to the local authority through the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund in 2018-19, and additional capital funding provided for schools in the budget 2018. The capital funding available to academy trusts is calculated on the same formulaic basis as maintained schools, school condition allocations for Academy trusts are available on GOV.UK. Data on capital funding allocated to local areas prior to 2011-12 is not readily available. We expect to announce condition funding for 2020-21 this spring.

In addition to this, the City of York has been allocated a further £197,000 through the Special Provision Capital Fund in 2020-21. This funding is intended to help local authorities create new places and improve facilities for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. On top of this funding the priority school rebuilding programme (PSBP) is rebuilding or refurbishing buildings in the worst condition at over 500 schools across England. Two projects in York have been completed in the first phase of PSBP (Carr Infant School and Lord Deramore’s Primary School) and Badger Hill Primary Academy is near completion in the second phase of PSBP.

Published data on capital allocations is available on the GOV.UK website.