To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent on repairs to schools in Hemsworth in each year since 1997. (316611)

Repairs which bring schools back to their original state constitute a revenue expense, and are paid out of revenue funding. Repairs which amount to capital improvement, such as a better insulation are payable from capital allocations.

School-based expenditure on repairs and maintenance of buildings in Wakefield local authority, as reported by the local authority, is set out in the following table. Information is not collected in respect of Hemsworth.

School capital allocations are not made directly to Hemsworth, but to Wakefield local authority. Allocations by the Department to Wakefield during the period of 1997-98 to 2009-11 are £222.6 million.