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 what is the value of the charges deferred to local authority budgets as a consequence of a school with a deficit joining an Academy Trust with an external sponsor, in each of the last five financial years.

Lord Nash

The Department does not hold this information on local authority budgets.

It is right that the deficits of sponsored academies remain with their local authority when they convert. These schools were the responsibility of the authority when they were found to be failing or underperforming and it is the authority’s responsibility for ensuring the school managed its expenditure satisfactorily.