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Schools: Finance

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the difference between budgeted and actual costs incurred in the construction of all new (a) schools and (b) academy schools; and if he will make a statement. (166105)

The schools for which the Department holds cost information are academies, as follows, with estimated costs including sponsorship. My Department does not hold cost information for other recently completed schools, which were procured locally, Building prices vary significantly according to the size of school, site development costs and local prevailing construction pricing levels.

Academy

Area

£ million

Bradford Academy

Bradford

20 5

Brunei Academy

Bristol

24.0

City of London Academy (Southwark)

Southwark

33.7

David Young Community Academy

Leeds

23.6

Djanogly City Academy

Nottingham

23.7

Folkestone Academy

Kent

36.8

Grace Academy

Solihull

31.7

Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy

Lewisham

40.5

Harris Academy

Croydon

38.0

John Madejski Academy

Reading

27.7

Leigh Technology Academy

Kent

36.6

London Academy

Barnet

34.4

Northampton Academy

Northampton

27.4

Paddington Academy

Westminster

31.5

Salford City Academy

Salford

16.7

Sandwell Academy

Sandwell

27.1

Stockley Academy

Hillingdon

27.5

The Academy at Peckham

Southwark

30.2

The Academy of St. Francis of Assisi

Liverpool

20.9

The Bridge Academy

Hackney

47.7

The City Academy

Bristol

27.7

The Marlowe Academy

Kent

27.8

The Petchey Academy

Hackney

34.2

The Samworth Enterprise Academy

Leicester

19.5

Thomas Deacon Academy

Peterborough

50.4

Trinity Academy

Doncaster

25.1

West London Academy

Ealing

32.2

Westminster Academy

Westminster

30.6

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the amount of guaranteed funding per school pupil in Hendon is from the (a) dedicated schools grant and (b) other specific grants in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09. (177925)

The Department allocates education so funding to local authorities the requested information for the Hendon constituency is not available. The guaranteed unit of funding per pupil for Barnet local authority for 2007-08 was £4,344 and for 2008-09 it will be £4,559. We do not apply a guaranteed unit of funding to specific grants.