The Department is only aware of one public finance funded school which has closed prematurely in the last five years. (College of Media, Arts and Technology in Brighton and Hove). All detailed cost information for establishing and closing this school is held at the local authority level.
Since April 2001, 457 schools have been funded via the private finance initiative. The following table gives a breakdown by local authority area.
LEA name Project name Number schools Barking and Dagenham Barking and Dagenham—Two Schools 2 Barnsley Barnsley—Thirteen schools 13 Bedfordshire Mid-Bedfordshire Schools Upper Schools Project 2 Bexley Bexley—Three Schools 3 Birmingham Birmingham 2—Twelve Schools 12 Bolton Bolton—Castle Hill School 1 Bradford BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1 3 Brighton and Hove Brighton and Hove—four schools 4 Bristol Bristol—Grouped Schools Project (Phase 1A) 4 Bristol BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1 4 Calderdale Calderdale—Grouped Schools Project 5 Camden Camden—Haverstock School 1 Cheshire Cheshire—Ellesmere Port and Neston Schools 6 Cornwall Cornwall 2—Truro schools 17 Coventry Coventry—Caludon Castle School 1 Croydon Croydon—Ashburton School 1 Darlington Darlington—Five Schools Project 4 Derby Derby—Grouped Schools 5 Derbyshire Derbyshire 1—Grouped Schools PFI Project 2 Derbyshire Derbyshire 2—Long Eaton and Newbold Replacement Schools Project 2 Devon Devon—Six Schools Project 6 Doncaster Doncaster—Two schools 2 Dudley Dudley 2—Paragon Project 2 Ealing Ealing 1—Ealing Schools Project 4 Eating Ealing 2—Three schools 3 Enfield Enfield—Joint Schools Project 3 Essex Essex 2—NDS—Tendring Schools 12 Essex Essex 3—Clacton-on-Sea Education Project 3 Gateshead Gateshead—Group of Schools 7 Harrow Harrow—Special Schools PFI 3 Havering Havering—Frances Bardsley School 1 Herefordshire Herefordshire—Whitecross High School 1 Kent Kent—Six schools (including Hugh Christie Technology College) 6 Kent Kent—Swanscombe Schools 2 Kirklees Kirklees 2—Special Schools Reorganisation 4 Lambeth Lambeth—Lilian Baylis School and Resource Centre 1 Lambeth Lambeth ICT—Connected Learning Project 1 Lancashire BSF Wave 1 10 Leeds BSF Wave 1 5 Leeds Leeds 1—7 Schools 7 Leeds Leeds 2—Ten Primary Schools 10 Leeds Leeds 3 and 4—Secondary and Post 16 PFI Project 6 Leicester City BSF Wave 1 6 Lewisharn Lewisham—Grouped Schools Modernisation (PFI) Project 7 Lincolnshire Lincolnshire—Seven Schools Project 7 Liverpool Liverpool—Grouped Schools Project 18 Liverpool Liverpool—Speke/Garston Lifelong Learning Centre 1 Manchester Manchester 2—Wright Robinson Sports College 1 Merton Merton—Age of Transfer 6 Newcastle upon Tyne BSF Wave 1 3 Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle 1—Six schools 6 Newham Newham—Joint Schools Project 1 Norfolk Norfolk 2—Norwich Area Grouped Schools PFi Project 12 North Tyneside North Tyneside—Four schools project 4 Northamptonshire Northamptonshire 1—Wooldale Centre for Learning 1 Northamptonshire Northamptonshire 2—Northampton Review 41 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire 1—East Leake Schools 2 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire 2—Bassetlaw Phases 1 and 2 8 Oldham Oldham—Grouped Schools 2 Peterborough Peterborough—Secondary Schools Scheme 3 Plymouth Plymouth 1and 2-Whitleigh Community Campus and Replacement Primaries 9 Redbridge Redbridge—Oaks Park School 1 Redcar and Cleveland Redcar and Cleveland—Grouped schools 5 Richmond upon Thames Richmond upon Thames—Primary Schools 6 Rochdale Rochdale—Aiming High 4 Rotherham Rotherham—Grouped Schools 15 Salford Salford 1—Special Schools Project 3 Salford Salford 2—High Schools PFI Project 3 Sandwell Sandwell—Five Schools PFI Project 5 Sheffield BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1 3 Sheffield Sheffield Schools Phase 2 2 Sheffield Sheffield Schools Phase 3 4 Slough Slough—Three schools 3 Solihull BSF Wave 1 3 South Tyneside South Tyneside—Boldon High School 1 Southampton Southampton—Three Secondary Schools 3 Stockton-on-Tees Stockton on Tees—Community Campus at Ingleby Barwick 2 Sunderland Sunderland—Sandhill View School 1 Swindon Swindon—North Swindon Schools PFI 7 Tameside Tameside—Hattersley Schools 3 Telford and Wrekin Telford and Wrekin—Hadley Learning Community Incorporating Jigsaw 3 Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets—Grouped Schools 25 Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets—Mulberry School 1 Walsall Walsall—St. Thomas More VA School 1 Waltham Forest BSF Wave 1 2 Waltham Forest Waltham Forest 2—Grouped Schools Project 8 West Sussex West Sussex—Crawley schools scheme 3 Worcestershire Worcestershire—Bromsgrove Schools 7 York York—Four schools 4 Total schools — 457
This is the most up-to-date information that the Department holds, but there may be more current information held at LA level.
The Department holds information on central Government allocations to local education authorities each year for conventional capital funding, and for PFI credits, but not on all school building projects. Local authorities have considerable flexibility to decide how to use their investment, for instance on the number, size and type of project, and we collect only some information on how capital allocations are used.
I am arranging for information on PFI and conventional funding allocations to authorities over the past 10 years to be placed in the House Library.
The Department does not routinely collect this information. To the best of our knowledge none of the schools procured under PFI since 1997 are now conventional capital projects using Design and Build contracts.