On Monday 18 January 2021, there will be an Opposition Day Debate on access to remote education and the quality of free school meals. This landing page highlights some of the available data and also provides links to existing Library and other briefings on these issues.
Documents to download
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CBP07375 (773 KB, PDF)
This paper provides information on the levels of funding available for capital projects in English schools, as well as on the streams of funding schools may access. The Priority School Building Programme, implemented by the Coalition Government as a replacement for the previous Building Schools for the Future programme, is discussed in a separate section.
The briefing includes an overview of the June 2020 announcements of a ’10-year, multi-wave, rebuilding programme’ for schools. Details of the funding, and the projects that will be supported, are yet to be announced.
The paper also includes an overview of the National Audit Office report on capital funding in schools, published in February 2017.
Documents to download
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CBP07375 (773 KB, PDF)
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