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Question for Department for Education

UIN 9800, tabled on 16 January 2024

Question

Bridget Phillipson
Labour
Houghton and Sunderland South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost to the public purse of construction, demolition and reconstruction of school buildings constructed by Caledonian Modular and subsequently found to be structurally unsound.

Answer

Damian Hinds
Conservative
East Hampshire
Commons

Answered on

19 January 2024

The department publishes contract values when available on Contracts Finder, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder. In addition, the department publishes capital costs for all free schools on GOV.UK once all works are completed and costs are finalised. Once at that point, the department will action this for these three schools and anticipates that may be some time in the future.

The department is currently progressing a range of legal and contractual mechanisms for recovering costs.

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