The Department’s guidance encourages authorities and schools to fully consider and compare the costs and benefits of options for the provision of accommodation.
Central Government capital support for investment in schools has increased from under £700 million in 1996-97 to £6.4 billion in 2007-08 and will rise further to £8 billion by 2010-11. Progress is being made year by year in improving the quality of the school building stock. Given the high levels of funding, authorities have the opportunity to replace temporary classrooms where they are considered to be unsuitable.
London boroughs 19972 20062 Inner London City of London 70 200 Camden n/a 1,700 Hackney 1,110 2,000 Hammersmith and Fulham n/a 1,000 Haringey 200 1,700 Islington 1,100 1,300 Kensington and Chelsea 700 1,500 Lambeth n/a 1,900 Lewisham 1,000 2,200 Newham 200 1,900 Southwark 2,100 4,200 Tower Hamlets n/a 1,400 Wandsworth 1,000 3,600 Westminster 700 1,100 Outer London Barking and Dagenham 200 700 Barnet 300 3,100 Bexley 200 800 Brent 300 1,300 Bromley 300 2,400 Croydon 700 3,700 Ealing 500 2,100 Enfield 300 1,800 Greenwich 200 2,300 Harrow 200 1,400 Havering 300 1,100 Hillingdon 100 1,100 Hounslow 600 1,400 Kingston upon Thames 300 1,300 Merton 300 2,200 Redbridge 200 1,300 Richmond upon Thames 400 1,800 Sutton 100 1,200 Waltham Forest n/a 2,000 n/a = Not available. 1 Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 places. 2 Data source: Children’s Day Care Facilities Survey. 3 Data source: Ofsted.
Data showing numbers of temporary buildings have been received from local education authorities for three years since 1997, but the data do not show numbers of pupils taught in those buildings.
Central Government capital support for investment in schools has increased from under £700 million in 1996-97 to £6.4 billion in 2007-08 and will rise further to £8.0 billion by 2010-11. Progress is being made year-by-year in improving the quality of the school building stock. Given the high levels of funding, authorities have the opportunity to replace temporary classrooms where they are considered to be unsuitable.
Expenditure on school buildings in England each year is determined by each local authority, using both resources both from the Department for Education and Skills and other resources available locally. Accordingly, no central records are kept of expenditure at local authority level. Capital allocations for school buildings and associated capital infrastructure in each of the last 30 years are set out in the following table, in £ billion.
These include ICT capital allocations and, from commencement in 1998-99, projects funded through PFI. Capital expenditure by local authorities will not necessarily be incurred in the year allocations are announced, owing to timing differences.
Allocation figures have been converted to current prices using the 2005-06 GDP deflator.
£ billion 1977-78 1.4 1978-79 1.3 1979-80 1.0 1980-81 1.1 1981-82 0.8 1982-83 0.7 1983-84 0.7 1984-85 0.7 1985-86 0.7 1986-87 0.7 1987-88 0.6 1988-89 0.8 1989-90 0.7 1990-91 0.8 1991-92 0.9 1992-93 1.0 1993-94 0.8 1994-95 0.8 1995-96 0.6 1996-97 0.7 1997-98 0.9 1998-99 1.1 1999-2000 1.2 2000-21 2.1 2001-22 2.1 2002-23 3.5 2003-24 4.1 2004-25 4.7 2005-26 5.6 2006-27 5.7