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1658116

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 3.3 of the National Audit Office report entitled Condition of school buildings, HC 1516, published June 2023, if she will publish the Spending Review case on school buildings funding sent to HM Treasury by the Department of Education ahead of the 2020 Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>The National Audit Office report outlines different levels of possible investment in the school estate. However, decisions about investment have to be made over a vast range of significant infrastructure projects across government. The Department regularly speaks to HM Treasury about investment in the education estate. It would be inappropriate to disclose the details requested of the sensitive negotiations between HM Treasury and the Department. It would only show part of the picture on a complex decision-making process that takes place between multiple departments, ministers, officials, and other individuals, and would not reflect that such a process has to look across the board at priorities. It would also breach the long-standing traditions, and expectation, of confidential and often commercially sensitive information not being disclosed into the public domain, and of allowing officials to give full and frank advice to ministers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/09/2023 15:39:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1658249

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2023 to Question 140337 on Schools: Closures, how many additional state-funded schools have (a) temporarily or (b) permanently closed (i) all or (ii) part of their school site since the answer to that question was provided because one or more buildings were deemed unsafe; and if she will publish a list of those schools.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2023 11:19:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1658423

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete on their school estate.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Nothing is more important than the safety of children and staff. It has always been the case that where we are made aware of a building that may pose an immediate risk, the Department takes immediate action.</p><p>It is the responsibility of those who run schools – academy trusts, Local Authorities, and voluntary-aided school bodies – who work with their schools on a day-to-day basis, to manage the safety and maintenance of their schools and to alert us if there is a concern with a building.</p><p>The Department has acted decisively and proactively to tackle this issue. This Government has taken more proactive action on RAAC than any other in the UK. The Department issued comprehensive guidance in 2018, and subsequent years, to all responsible bodies highlighting the potential risks associated with RAAC and supporting them to identify this within their buildings, as well as to take appropriate steps in meeting their obligations to keep buildings safe. The most recent guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-estates-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-estates-guidance</a>.</p><p>There are over 22,000 schools and colleges in England, and the vast majority are unaffected. A significant proportion of the estate was built outside the period where RAAC was used, with around one third of the estate built since 2001, therefore, the Department has focused efforts on buildings built in the post-war decades.</p><p>The Department issued a questionnaire in March 2022, asking responsible bodies to inform the Department of any suspected RAAC identified in their estates. Responsible bodies have submitted questionnaires for over 98% of schools with blocks built in the target era, of which there are 14,900. We are pressing all remaining schools to get checks completed, to determine which schools require surveys.</p><p>The Department is contacting responsible bodies to help them respond to this request and to advise on what needs to be done, so that they can establish whether they believe they have RAAC. This work will continue until we have a response for all target era schools.</p><p>Schools and colleges where RAAC is suspected are being fast tracked for surveying, which is used to confirm whether RAAC is actually present. All schools and colleges that have already told us they suspect they might have RAAC will be surveyed within a matter of weeks, in many cases in a matter of days.</p><p>All schools where RAAC is confirmed are provided with a dedicated caseworker to support them and help implement a mitigation plan and minimise the disruption to children’s learning.</p><p>Across Government, Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed RAAC in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out. The Department for Education published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September, and committed to providing further updates.</p><p>Schools will contact parents where RAAC is identified and inform them of any impacts on their child. The vast majority of schools are unaffected. Any parents that are unsure if their child’s school is affected should contact their school directly.</p><p>While some short term disruption is inevitable, all available measures will be taken to minimise disruption to pupil learning and ensure that pupils continue to receive face-to-face teaching. Where there is any disturbance to face-to-face education, schools will prioritise attendance for vulnerable children and young people and children of key workers. The guidance published by the Department in August also includes guidance on provision for pupils with SEND and sets out expectations that schools continue to provide free school meals to eligible pupils.</p><p>The Department will fund emergency mitigation work needed to make buildings safe, including installing alternative classroom space where necessary. Where schools and colleges need additional help with revenue costs, like transport to locations or temporarily renting a local hall or office, the department will provide that support for all reasonable requests. The Department will also fund longer term refurbishment projects, or rebuilding projects where these are needed, to rectify the RAAC issue in the long term.</p><p>All previously confirmed Schol Rebuilding Programme projects announced in 2021 and 2022 will continue to go ahead. A full list of confirmed projects can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme-schools-in-the-programme</a>.</p><p>Further information on RAAC in education settings is available on the Education Hub: <a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/06/new-guidance-on-raac-in-education-settings/" target="_blank">https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/06/new-guidance-on-raac-in-education-settings/</a><a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/04/new-guidance-on-raac-in-education-settings/" target="_blank">.</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 195297 195298 195299 197045 197366 197369 197478 197492 197557 197558 197559 197603 197613 197809 197863 197864 197870 197920 197971 197972 197973 198246 198247 198255 198384 198393 198465 198466 198467 198572 198573 198575 199083 199254 199665 199666 199670 question first answered 18/09/2023 20:03:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657699

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the transparency data entitled Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC): management information, published by her Department on 31 August 2023, if she will publish a list of the education settings where RAAC is known to be present; and in which local authorities those settings are.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed RAAC in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out.</p><p>The Government published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September, and committed to providing further updates.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 195929 196299 197171 197318 197343 197368 197477 197479 197491 197554 197614 197925 question first answered 18/09/2023 20:01:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657700

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance entitled Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC): guidance for responsible bodies and education settings with confirmed RAAC, published by her Department on 31 August 2023, when her Department received new evidence about the safety risk posed by RAAC that led her Department to publish revised guidance.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2023 answer text <p>Nothing is more important than the safety of children and staff. The Department discovered details of three new cases over the summer, where RAAC that would have been graded as non-critical has failed. The first of these was in a commercial setting. The second was in a school in a different educational jurisdiction.</p><p>It was right to carefully consider the cases and scrutinise the technical details from these. The Department’s technical officials were able to investigate the situation in one case where the plank that had failed was fully intact as it was resting on a steel beam after it failed. They concluded that it would previously been rated non-critical.</p><p>Ministers were carefully considering the first two cases, and advice from officials, when a third failure of a panel occurred, at a school in late August. The Department’s technical officials also visited this school to investigate the failure. In light of all three cases, it was right to make the difficult decision to change Departmental guidance for education settings and take a more cautious approach.</p><p>Following careful analysis of these recent cases, a precautionary and proactive step has been taken to change the approach to RAAC in education settings ahead of the start of the academic year, as outlined in our guidance.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/09/2023 13:53:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657303

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school buildings constructed by (a) Caledonian Modular and (b) other contractors engaged under the Modern Methods of Construction framework have been investigated by her Department for possible safety defects; and if she will publish the findings of those investigations.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Caledonian Modular Limited (CML) was directly contracted to deliver five schools by the Department for Education. The Department did not contract CML to build any further education college buildings. Three schools were completed and two were partially constructed and are being rebuilt.</p><p> </p><p>All five of these schools delivered by CML have been investigated. No other schools using Modern Methods of Construction have been similarly investigated, and there are currently no plans to publish the findings.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate steps are being taken to enforce the Department’s contractual rights in relation to all affected CML schools, including those schools which have closed due to possible safety defects and those which never reached completion. The Department is pursuing all avenues for redress against the parties responsible for those issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 197260 197261 question first answered 08/09/2023 15:52:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657304

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education and Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) state-funded school and (b) college buildings were Caledonian Modular contracted to build by her Department since 2010; and whether she has an estimate on the number that were (i) completed and (ii) partially constructed.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Caledonian Modular Limited (CML) was directly contracted to deliver five schools by the Department for Education. The Department did not contract CML to build any further education college buildings. Three schools were completed and two were partially constructed and are being rebuilt.</p><p> </p><p>All five of these schools delivered by CML have been investigated. No other schools using Modern Methods of Construction have been similarly investigated, and there are currently no plans to publish the findings.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate steps are being taken to enforce the Department’s contractual rights in relation to all affected CML schools, including those schools which have closed due to possible safety defects and those which never reached completion. The Department is pursuing all avenues for redress against the parties responsible for those issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 197259 197261 question first answered 08/09/2023 15:52:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657305

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken steps to recover money from (a) the administrators of Caledonian Modular and (b) other organisations in relation to (i) schools that were never completed and (ii) schools constructed by Caledonian Modular that have since closed due to possible safety defects.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Caledonian Modular Limited (CML) was directly contracted to deliver five schools by the Department for Education. The Department did not contract CML to build any further education college buildings. Three schools were completed and two were partially constructed and are being rebuilt.</p><p> </p><p>All five of these schools delivered by CML have been investigated. No other schools using Modern Methods of Construction have been similarly investigated, and there are currently no plans to publish the findings.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate steps are being taken to enforce the Department’s contractual rights in relation to all affected CML schools, including those schools which have closed due to possible safety defects and those which never reached completion. The Department is pursuing all avenues for redress against the parties responsible for those issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 197259 197260 question first answered 08/09/2023 15:52:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1657449

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the transparency data on the number of education settings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, published by her Department on 31 August 2023, how many state-funded education settings have closed to pupils (a) at least one classroom, (b) at least one building, (c) the entire site as of 31 August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	197318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed RAAC in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out.</p><p>The Government published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September, and committed to providing further updates.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 195929 196299 197171 197343 197368 197477 197479 197491 197554 197577 197614 197925 question first answered 18/09/2023 20:01:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1654790

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Question 44 of the oral evidence given by her Department's Chief Operating Officer to the Committee of Public Accounts on 13 July 2023, HC1338, for what reason her Department has not published the full results of the Condition Data Collection 1 survey.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	195580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2023 answer text <p>The full school level data from the first Condition Data Collection programme was published in the House Libraries on 20 July 2023. This is accessible at: <a href="https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpaper/2285521/details" target="_blank">https://depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpaper/2285521/details</a>.</p><p>It is the responsibility of academy trusts, Local Authorities, and voluntary aided school bodies, who work with the schools they run to manage the safety and maintenance of their schools, to alert the Department if there is a serious concern with a building.</p><p>If the Department is made aware of a building that poses serious imminent risks to the safety of pupils or staff, immediate action is taken to ensure their safety and remediate the situation. There are no open areas within schools or college buildings where the Department knows of an imminent risk to life.</p><p>The Department helps responsible bodies to meet their responsibilities by providing significant capital funding for their schools, delivering rebuilding programmes and providing guidance and support. The Department has allocated over £15 billion since 2015 for keeping school buildings safe and in good working order, including £1.8 billion committed for 2023/24. In addition, the School Rebuilding Programme will transform buildings at 500 schools, prioritising poor condition and potential safety issues.</p><p>The Condition Data Collection (CDC) data helps the Department understand the condition of the school estate in England and how it is changing over time, and the data is part of the evidence base used to make school condition funding allocations.</p><p>CDC was one of the largest data collection programmes in the UK public sector.</p><p>The data was collected between 2017/19 and reflects a visual snapshot of the estate as it was and therefore does not reflect the current condition of the school buildings. In May 2021, the Department published the key findings of the CDC programme in the report ‘Condition of School Buildings Survey – Key Findings’, which can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/989912/Condition_of_School_Buildings_Survey_CDC1_-_key_findings_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/989912/Condition_of_School_Buildings_Survey_CDC1_-_key_findings_report.pdf</a>. The report provides school condition data at national and regional level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 195581 question first answered 11/10/2023 10:27:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson