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Schools: Carbon Emissions

Commons · Question 41554 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 3 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts have been agreed by her Department for (a) designing and (b) constructing new school buildings that are net zero in operation; and what the value was of each contract.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 3 Apr 2025

The department’s building projects are currently delivered through our £7 billion construction framework 2021 (CF21) which was published under the previous government. The specification for that framework requires buildings to be net zero carbon in operat...