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date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 28 March (HL14650), what are the (1) names, (2) related local authorities, (3) phases, and (4) religions, of each expression of interest in the new capital funding scheme for voluntary-aided schools they received.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL15002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>On 26 March 2019, the department published the list of bids received for the new capital funding scheme for voluntary-aided schools. The link to this list, which is split by school name, local authority, phase and faith ethos or designation, can be found on the GOV.UK website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-applicant-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-applicant-information</a>.</p><p>This list can also be found attached.</p><p>As registering expressions of interest was not compulsory and not all groups who register their interest go on to submit bids, the department does not publish information about expressions of interest.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 08/04/2019 16:04:06 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL15002_Voluntary_aided_school_applicant_information.pdf title HL15002_Voluntary-aided_school_applicant_info
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1092785

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to Guidance and criteria for proposers bidding for capital funding to support the establishment of a new voluntary aided school, published in December 2018, what evidence they had of improving the diversity within the governing body of a school supporting greater inclusion and integration in, and between, communities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL14736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The guidance and criteria for the voluntary-aided capital scheme sets out how new voluntary- aided schools will need to support inclusivity and integration within and between communities and explains that diversity on the governing body is a way for proposers to demonstrate their commitment to this.</p><p>The bids received in the first round of the voluntary-aided capital scheme are currently being assessed, and the outcome of that assessment will be announced in due course once the assessment stage is complete.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 03/04/2019 12:53:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

1092809

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether new religious schools established as a result of their new capital funding scheme and which are legally permitted to select all of their pupils on faith grounds will be encouraged to convert to academy status; and whether there will be a time restriction on when such schools are able to do so.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL14760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Any voluntary-aided school, including those funded through the recently announced voluntary-aided capital scheme, can apply to convert to academy status in the same way as any other maintained school. Whilst the department does not plan to put specific restrictions in place on academy conversion for this group of schools, they will need to obtain the necessary consents, meet our criteria and undertake a consultation before doing so.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 29/03/2019 13:13:36 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

1092433

registered interest
date	20/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to provide funding for additional rounds of the new capital scheme for voluntary-aided schools; and if so, how often they intend to do so.
tabling member printed	Baroness Blackstone
uin	HL14690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The department launched the capital scheme for voluntary-aided schools on the 15 November 2018 and the bidding round closed on 1 February 2019. We plan to launch a second bidding round in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 02/04/2019 16:03:04 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3561 label Biography information for Baroness Blackstone

1091603

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Voluntary Schools: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of expressions of interest in the new capital funding scheme for voluntary-aided schools were for schools with a religious character; and what is the number of those expressions of interest broken down by faith group.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL14650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The capital scheme for voluntary-aided schools is designed to be small. Registering an interest in the scheme prior to submitting a bid for funding was not compulsory.</p><p>As well as exploratory discussions with stakeholders, we received expressions of interest for 22 new voluntary-aided schools, 19 of which we have the details of the proposed religious character. We received expressions of interest by faith group as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Faith type</p></td><td><p>Number of expressions of interest received</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Christian Church of England</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Christian Catholic</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Christian other/no denomination</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hindu</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jewish</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Muslim</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (no faith given)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 28/03/2019 12:04:33 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town