Schools: Closures

(asked on 14th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2016 to Question 55853, who records the cost of school closures.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 19th December 2016

The Local Authority is responsible for the cost of the closure of local authority maintained schools. The Academy Trust and the Department for Education is responsible for the cost of closing an academy. However, these costs are not collected centrally.

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