Schools: Floods
(asked on 30th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of schools that were affected by flooding in each of the last five academic years.
The department cannot provide the information requested for all schools. However, our Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA) collects details of claims to its service. The table below shows the number of flooding related claims made to the RPA in each of the last five academic years as at 31 December 2024.
Academic Year | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25* | Total |
RPA Member Schools | 6,387 | 7,716 | 9,098 | 10,008 | 11,144 | 12,538 |
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Members who experienced a weather-related event | 317 | 267 | 203 | 427 | 427 | 258 | 1899 |
*Partial year up to and including December 2024.