Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to adopt a smarter approach to the use of building management equipment that controls the internal environment of modern school buildings as a result of the findings of the report from the Royal Institute of British Architects, Better Spaces for Learning Report, published in May 2016.

We already recognise the issues raised with regards over complex building management systems and had significantly revised our standards prior to the publication of the report. Our current standards already encourage the use of simple building management systems that can be easily monitored and controlled by school staff.