Education written question – answered at on 27 October 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education
(1) what estimate he has made of the average cost to the public purse of refurbishing or rebuilding a school under the Building Schools for the Future scheme;
(2) what estimate he has made of the average cost of refurbishing or rebuilding a school in the five years prior to the commencement of the Building Schools for the Future scheme.
The average cost to the public purse of a refurbishment school under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme is £3.9 million. The average cost to the public purse of a new build school under the BSF scheme is £22 million. From a small sample of local authorities in Waves 5 and 6, the average cost to a local authority for its BSF scheme during pre-procurement was £1.6 million.
The Department for Education does not hold information on the average cost of refurbishing a school in the five years prior to the commencement of the BSF scheme.
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