Free Schools: Godmanchester

(asked on 15th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what Government funding had been allocated to the development of Godmanchester Secondary Academy prior to its cancellation.


Answered by
Josh MacAlister Portrait
Josh MacAlister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 6th January 2026

Godmanchester Secondary Academy was approved into pre-opening in 2017 as part of Free Schools Wave 12. Delivery was provisionally anticipated for September 2022, but the project never achieved approval to move into the construction stage. The trust formally withdrew the project in April 2020 with the opening forecast not changing during the interim.

Due to the early stage that it reached, only the following funding was allocated to this project:

Capital costs for project manager fees and staff costs:

£3,731.31

Project development grant:

£30,000.00

TOTAL

£33,731.31

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