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<p>The department allocates condition funding each year to those responsible for school
buildings to improve and maintain the condition of the school estate. Most condition
funding allocations are calculated at a responsible body level and cannot be broken
down to constituency level, as decisions on investment are often taken at a local
level.</p><p>Schools and those responsible for school buildings receive condition
funding through different routes depending on their size and type. The majority of
condition funding is paid to responsible bodies through annual School Condition Allocations
(SCA). Devolved Formula Capital (DFC) is also allocated for schools to spend on their
own capital priorities.</p><p>The department has allocated over £20 million in condition
funding to Coventry local authority since 2017 for maintained schools (see attached
table). This includes SCA (and up to the 2019-20 financial year, funding paid via
the local authority Voluntary Aided Programme for voluntary aided schools), and DFC.
As part of this, in the 2018-19 financial year, additional funding was made available
through the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund, as well as £400 million additional DFC. In
the 2020-21 financial year, the government made an additional £560 million available
for essential maintenance and upgrade projects. Coventry local authority’s share of
additional funding has been included in figures in the table.</p><p>Large multi-academy
trusts and large voluntary aided school bodies, also receive SCA funding to invest
in schools for which they are responsible. These are not included in the figures as
large academy trusts and voluntary aided school bodies will typically span local authority
boundaries. A full breakdown of allocations can be found on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Smaller
trusts, voluntary aided schools and sixth form colleges that are not eligible for
SCA can bid into the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) each year. Over the last 5 years,
there have been 3 successful CIF applications for eligible schools in the Coventry
North East Constituency with a total funding award of £1.2 million. Over the same
period, for Coventry overall there have been 38 successful CIF applications with a
total funding award of £12.4 million.</p><p> </p><p>For the Priority School Building
Programme there have been two schools in the Coventry North-East constituency, and
six schools in the Coventry Local Authority over the last five years. So far, there
have not been any schools from the Coventry North East constituency within the new
School Rebuilding Programme. However, four schools in the Coventry local authority
area are included in the first 100 projects of the programme that have been announced
to date.</p>
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