The Department for Education and Skills does not collect information on new schools built by local authorities, in support of our policies of devolving decision-making to the local level and minimising bureaucratic burden. However, we estimate that since 1997, 800 new schools have been built around the country.
This estimate includes information on the numbers, by local authority, of new schools (including replacement schools) built in recent years through the academies programme and the private finance initiative, which is also renewing and refurbishing many existing school buildings. Additionally, in the voluntary aided sector, we have information on new schools approved and built since 2001-02, although these figures under-represent the number of new voluntary aided schools opened, as they do not include where a new school is open, but all elements of construction are not yet completed. Nor do the figures include new voluntary aided schools approved in earlier years but completed in or after 2001-02, where the records are not readily accessible.
This information is provided in the following table. We will collect this information systematically in Building Schools for the Future and the Primary Capital Programme.
Private finance initiative Academies Voluntary aided schools Total Barking and Dagenham 1 — — 1 Barnet — 1 — 1 Bexley — 1 — 1 Birmingham 8 — 1 9 Blackburn with Darwen — — 1 1 Bolton 1 — — 1 Brent 1 1 — 2 Bristol 4 1 — 5 Calderdale 5 — — 5 Camden 1 — — 1 Cheshire 4 — 1 5 Cornwall 2 — — 2 Coventry — — 1 1 Darlington — — 1 1 Derby 5 — — 5 Derbyshire 4 — — 4 Devon 5 — 1 6 Doncaster — 1 — 1 Dorset 1 — 1 2 Dudley 2 — — 2 Ealing 4 1 — 5 East Riding of Yorkshire 2 — — 2 East Sussex 4 — 1 5 Enfield 2 — — 2 Essex 2 — — 2 Hackney — 1 — 1 Haringey 1 — — 1 Harrow 2 — — 2 Herefordshire 1 — — 1 Hillingdon 1 1 1 3 Kent 2 1 2 5 Kingston upon Hull 1 — — 1 Lambeth 1 1 — 2 Lancashire 1 — 1 2 Leeds 15 1 — 16 Leicester City — — 1 1 Lincolnshire 7 — — 7 Liverpool 16 1 — 17 Manchester 2 1 — 3 Middlesbrough — 2 1 3 Milton Keynes — — 1 1 Newcastle upon Tyne 6 — — 6 Newham 3 — — 3 Norfolk — — 1 1 North Tyneside 4 — — 4 North Yorkshire 4 — — 4 Northamptonshire 1 1 1 3 Nottinghamshire 2 — — 2 Oxfordshire — — 1 1 Portsmouth 1 — — 1 Reading — 1 1 2 Redbridge 1 — — 1 Redcar and Cleveland 5 — — 5 Richmond upon Thames 2 — — 2 Rotherham 7 — — 7 Salford — 1 — 1 Sandwell 5 1 — 6 Sheffield 6 — 1 7 Solihull — 1 — 1 South Tyneside 1 — — 1 Southampton 3 — — 3 Southwark — 1 — 1 Staffordshire 1 — 1 2 Stockton-on-Tees 2 — — 2 Stoke-on-Trent 1 — — 1 Sunderland 1 — 1 2 Surrey — — 1 1 Swindon 2 — 1 3 Tameside 3 — — 3 Telford and Wrekin 1 — 1 2 Torbay 2 — — 2 Tower Hamlets 1 — 1 2 Walsall 1 1 — 2 Waltham Forest 2 — — 2 Wandsworth — — 1 1 West Sussex 3 — — 3 Wigan — — 1 1 Wiltshire 3 — 1 4 Wirral 3 — — 3 York 2 — — 2 Total 187 22 29 238