Free Schools: Finance
(asked on 3rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what total sum of money is given to each prospective free school as start-up costs; and what total sum of money has been spent on start-up costs for free schools that have not proceeded since the launch of the free schools programme.
Proposer groups whose applications are approved receive a fixed rate of pre-opening funding to cover all essential expenditure to establish a new school. The amount of grant received will depend on the type of school and whether the trust is opening multiple schools in a single academic year.
The current rates of pre-opening grant funding are:
Single project | Multiple projects | ||
Type of school | Pre-opening grant funding level | Pre-opening grant funding for first school | Pre-opening grant funding for each subsequent school opened in a single academic year |
Primary | £220,000 | £220,000 | £150,000 |
Secondary and All Through | £300,000 | £300,000 | £200,000 |
Special School | £220,000 | £220,000 | £150,000 |
Alternative Provision | £220,000 | £220,000 | £150,000 |
16-19 | £250,000 | £250,000 | £170,000 |
The Department’s confirmed pre-opening expenditure on free school projects that were due to open by 2012 but did not proceed is £940,146.
Confirmed pre-opening expenditure on free school projects that opened or were withdrawn in 2013 will be published in due course.