Education written question – answered at on 27 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education
(1) what the planned expenditure on the Building Schools for the Future programme in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency and (b) Sunderland would have been for (i) mainstream provision and (ii) special needs and other non-mainstream provision in each of the next three years had the programme not been discontinued;
(2) what assessment he has made of the effects on schools in Houghton and Sunderland South constituency of his decision to discontinue the Building Schools for the Future programme;
(3) what estimate he has made of the effects of ending the Building Schools for the Future programme on the number of construction jobs in (a) Sunderland and (b) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency.
Sunderland had two Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects, the first of which was Wave 1 and this project has received the funding available to it. The second project, in BSF Wave 7, was in the early stages of planning and while an indicative overall funding envelope of £127 million had been determined, the local authority had not submitted its Outline Business Case setting out each school's investment and delivery strategy. For this reason, information in the form requested is not held centrally.
Yes1 person thinks so
No2 people think not
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