Department for Education written question – answered am ar 17 Rhagfyr 2018.
Jo Stevens
Llafur, Canol Caerdydd
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse has been of converting local authority schools to academy schools since 2010.
Nadhim Zahawi
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
As of 1 December 2018, there are 7,814 open academies.
During the last nine financial years, the department has spent £443 million on pre-opening start-up grants to support local authority schools to convert to become academies. Further details are found in the table below:
Costs | |
2018-19 (as at end November 18) | £17 million |
2017-18 | £38 million |
2016-17 | £54 million |
2015-16 | £28 million |
2014-15 | £48 million |
2013-14 | £59 million |
2012-13 | £65 million |
2011-12 | £67 million |
2010-11 | £67 million |
Total | £443 million |
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