Building Schools for the Future Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local authorities are participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how many schools in each participating authority are scheduled for (a) refurbishment and (b) replacement. (216735)

The following table identifies the local authorities participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme whose proposals for refurbishing and replacing schools have been agreed.

*Number of schools scheduled for*
Local authority	refurbishment	replacement
Bradford¹	0	10
Barnsley	0	10
Birmingham¹	7	12
Blackburn	5	3
Bristol¹	0	5
Cambridgeshire¹	5	1
Derbyshire¹	4	3
Durham¹	6	3
Gateshead¹	2	0
Greenwich¹	2	3
Hackney	6	4
Haringey	11	2
Islington	6	6
Kent¹	7	5
Knowsley	0	9
Lambeth¹	1	4
Lancashire¹	3	8
Leeds¹	10	4
Leicester	12	6
Lewisham	9	7
Liverpool¹	5	3
Luton¹	3	5
Manchester¹	10	6
Middlesbrough	5	3
Newcastle	5	5
Newham¹	10	5
North Lincolnshire	5	3
Nottingham¹	5	6
Rochdale	9	5
Salford	1	7
Sandwell¹	5	3
Sheffield¹	7	3
Solihull	1	3
Southwark¹	4	9
South Tyneside	5	7
Sunderland	7	0
Tameside	7	7
Tower Hamlets¹	6	0
Waltham Forest¹	5	2
Westminster	8	2
¹ These local authorities have further projects in later waves of the programme; detailed school plans for these later projects have yet to be confirmed.

The following local authorities are participating in the BSF programme, but their plans for replacing or refurbishing the school estate are yet to be confirmed:

Barking and Dagenham, Bedford, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bournemouth and Poole, Camden, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Ealing, Enfield, Essex, Halton, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hartlepool, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kirklees, North East Lincolnshire, North Tyneside, Nottinghamshire, Oldham, Portsmouth, Redcar and Cleveland, Rotherham, Somerset, Southampton, Staffordshire, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Suffolk, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wandsworth, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been committed to the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how much in private finance initiative credit has been committed. (216736)

The amount of capital resources allocated to the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme between 2005-06 and 2010-11 is £7.84 billion of conventional funding, and £7.454 billion of PFI credits. From 2008-09, the BSF budget includes academies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what guidance he has issued on the consultations to take place before a local authority bids for Building Schools for the Future funds. (216749)

The Strategy for Change guidance sets out the requirement that authorities are able to demonstrate that they have consulted extensively on their Building Schools for the Future (BSF) proposals. We have also issued additional guidance for local authorities on school competitions and where the consultation processes align with the BSF timescales.

Volume 478: debated on Tuesday 8 July 2008