To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he is taking to encourage local authorities to use the Building Schools for the Future programme to benefit deprived communities and rebuild schools that are most in need. (192482)

To ensure that Building Schools for the Future reaches the schools that are in most need, prioritisation was based on the greatest educational and social need of geographically coherent groupings of schools proposed by local authorities, GCSE results and eligibility for free school meals were used as proxies for these needs. Once in the programme, authorities must demonstrate through their Strategy for Change submissions that they are addressing the educational and physical |priorities in their estates.