Speeches

Baroness Pinnock – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Pinnock on 2015-11-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding has been allocated via the academy conversion grant in each of the last five financial years.

Lord Nash

There have been 3,327 converter academies opened during the current and preceding four financial years, each receiving the standard conversion support grant of £25,000 to spend on the conversion process.

Further details are in the table below:

Financial Year

Converter academies opened

2014-15

608

2013-14

573

2012-13

786

2011-12

1,100

Total

3,327

Figures for 2015-16 are not available at this stage.