To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many educational establishments in receipt of funding from his Department are accommodated in listed buildings; and how many of these have been designated as in need of significant repair. (180349)

The English higher education sector has listed buildings which amount to 2,052,293 m² at around 100 institutions. We do not have figures for the number of individual listed buildings but estimate that this floor space represents around 2,000 buildings. We do not have information showing the number of listed buildings designated as in need of significant repair.

Within the FE sector a total of 107 FE colleges submitted returns in 2006 saying that they had listed buildings. The total gross internal floor of listed buildings based on those returns is 446,477 m².