Question follow-through · 81062
Schools: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of schools awaiting essential building repairs.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Pupils: Young Carers · 14 Oct 2025
- Pre-school Education: Gloucestershire · 14 Oct 2025
- Pre-school Education: South West · 14 Oct 2025
- Pre-school Education: South West · 14 Oct 2025
- Special Educational Needs: Tribunals · 10 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of schools awaiting essential building repairs.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
Ensuring schools and colleges have the resources and buildings they need is a key part of the department’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and give every young person the best start in life.This government has given a long-term commitment th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Pupils: Young Carers
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy for schools to (a) appoint a designated young carers lead and (b) implement a (i) flagging and (ii) registration scheme for young carers.
Pre-school Education: Gloucestershire
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how funding rates for early years education in Gloucestershire compare with the rest of England; and what criteria these funding rates are based on.
Pre-school Education: South West
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of pre-schools that rely on fundraising to cover (a) operational and (b) staffing costs in the South West.
Pre-school Education: South West
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of pre-schools that have closed due to financial difficulties in the South West in the last five years.
Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on SEND tribunal appeals in the last 12 months.
Students: Finance
21 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce students’ reliance on paid employment alongside their studies; and how it intends to ensure that students living in rural or employment-scarce areas have equal acce
Students: Finance
21 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how regional cost-of-living disparities are taken into account when calculating student maintenance support, particularly for lower-income students studying in rural unive
Students: Finance
21 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the current student maintenance support system in light of sustained increases in rent, food, and energy costs; and what steps it is taking to ensure t
Pre-school Education: Finance
6 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the financial viability of rural early years providers operating from (a) village halls and (b) any other shared community premises where daily set-up and pack-down co
Pre-school Education: Finance
6 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to introduce a (a) rurality and (b) sparsity weighting within the Early Years National Funding Formula.
Pre-school Education: Rural Areas
6 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many rural early years settings have closed in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those were operating from shared or temporary premises.
Pre-school Education: Finance
6 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on the use of (a) sustainability and (b) contingency funding to prevent the closure of sole early years providers in rural villages.