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1174937

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the most recent round of funding granted through the voluntary-aided schools: capital scheme.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The first round of the voluntary-aided (VA) capital scheme ran from November 2018 to February 2019. The successful bid, from the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA) for a Catholic primary school in Peterborough, was announced in June 2019. Following receipt of in-principle agreement from the Department to provide capital funding, proposers are required to complete the statutory process to establish new VA schools. Peterborough City Council approved the statutory proposals from RCDEA on 27 January 2020.</p><p>A feasibility study will now be carried out before the Department gives final agreement to provide funding. We will announce further information about round two of the scheme in due course, taking into account lessons from the first round.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 10442 10443 question first answered 07/02/2020 12:29:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1174941

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to launch the second round of the voluntary-aided schools capital scheme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	10442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The first round of the voluntary-aided (VA) capital scheme ran from November 2018 to February 2019. The successful bid, from the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA) for a Catholic primary school in Peterborough, was announced in June 2019. Following receipt of in-principle agreement from the Department to provide capital funding, proposers are required to complete the statutory process to establish new VA schools. Peterborough City Council approved the statutory proposals from RCDEA on 27 January 2020.</p><p>A feasibility study will now be carried out before the Department gives final agreement to provide funding. We will announce further information about round two of the scheme in due course, taking into account lessons from the first round.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 10441 10443 question first answered 07/02/2020 12:29:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1174942

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to change the (a) application and (b) approval process for the second round of funding for the voluntary-aided schools: capital scheme.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	10443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The first round of the voluntary-aided (VA) capital scheme ran from November 2018 to February 2019. The successful bid, from the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA) for a Catholic primary school in Peterborough, was announced in June 2019. Following receipt of in-principle agreement from the Department to provide capital funding, proposers are required to complete the statutory process to establish new VA schools. Peterborough City Council approved the statutory proposals from RCDEA on 27 January 2020.</p><p>A feasibility study will now be carried out before the Department gives final agreement to provide funding. We will announce further information about round two of the scheme in due course, taking into account lessons from the first round.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 10441 10442 question first answered 07/02/2020 12:29:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1151382

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were made under the first round of the new voluntary-aided schools capital scheme which closed in February 2019.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	3646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department received 14 bids in the first round of the voluntary-aided schools capital scheme; one bid (Runnymede St Edward's Catholic Primary School) was deemed ineligible and one bid (Archbishop Romero School) subsequently withdrew.</p><p>A full list of applicant information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-applicant-information/voluntary-aided-schools-applicant-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-aided-schools-capital-scheme-applicant-information/voluntary-aided-schools-applicant-information</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/10/2019 17:11:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1151384

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce a second round of the new voluntary-aided schools capital scheme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	3647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is currently developing the second round of the voluntary-aided capital scheme and expect to launch it shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/10/2019 16:56:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane