Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the costs will be of the proposed conversion of all non-academies to academy schools.

Taking the Spending Review and the Budget together, we have set aside the funding to support a high quality school system where all schools are academies.

Through the Budget and the Department for Education’s settlement in the Spending Review there are sufficient resources available to take advantage of the opportunities presented by all schools becoming academies. The Government has allocated £300 million that will be available to support schools to convert and, in particular, support sponsors to turn around failing schools. A further £300 million will be available to support strong and effective multi-academy trusts to grow and improve.

The Department will be issuing further detail on how funding will support the conversion of all schools to academy status in due course.