{"value":{"id":1230053,"memberId":4108,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Secretary of State for Education","uin":"HCWS428","dateMade":"2020-09-01T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","title":"Education Update","text":"<p>Today, I am confirming £560 million of capital funding to maintain and improve the condition of the school estate.</p><p>On 29 June, the Government announced a transformative, ten-year rebuilding programme for schools, supported by over £1 billion for the first 50 projects. This will replace poor condition and ageing school buildings, with modern, energy efficient designs, transforming education for thousands of pupils</p><p>The government also announced that £560 million of additional condition funding would be made available this year to maintain and improve the condition of the school estate. This is in addition to the £1.45 billion already provided for school maintenance in financial year 2020-21.</p><p>Details of how the additional funding has been allocated were published on 5 August 2020. This included:</p><ul><li>£182 million to fund a further 580 Condition Improvement Fund projects from the 2020-21 application round, at 548 eligible academies, sixth form colleges and voluntary aided schools. A further £5 million will support the CIF appeals round and urgent projects later in the year.</li><li>A further £373 million allocated through School Condition Allocations for 2020-21 for local authorities, large multi-academy trusts and academy sponsors, and dioceses, and other large voluntary aided school groups.</li></ul><p>Overall, for the Condition Improvement Fund 2020-21 bidding round we have now awarded a total of £616 million for 2,056 projects, benefitting 1652 schools and colleges. We have now also allocated £1,176 million in School Condition Allocations for 2020-21.</p><p>Full details have been published on the Department for Education section on the GOV.UK website. Copies will be placed in the House Library.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1230426,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2020-09-02T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1230053","method":"GET"}]}