Written question WQ96927

The Sustainable Communities for Learning programme (formerly 21st Century Schools and Colleges) has invested £1,347,098,226 in schools throughout Wales over the last 5 years. A breakdown of this capital spend by local authority is provided in Table 1 overleaf.

Many of our annual capital grant allocations associated with the wider Programme, such as Community Focused schools, Additional Learning Needs and Capital Repairs and Maintenance are allocated to local authorities to use flexibly, as they are best placed to understand the priorities of their local education estate. It is therefore not possible to provide an accurate number of schools that have received Welsh Government capital grant funding across the entire programme.

Table 1: Breakdown of the Sustainable Communities for Learning programme capital spend for last 5 years by local authority:

Table 1: Total WG SCfL Capital Funding Per Local Authority

Local Authority

2020-21 (£)

2021-22 (£)

2022-23 (£)

2023-24 (£)

2024-25 (£)

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

1,381,522

2,080,093

6,268,010

10,026,320

12,323,738

Bridgend County Borough Council

3,961,564

6,708,929

7,276,566

2,823,087

5,633,658

Caerphilly County Borough Council

5,551,517

5,121,481

14,580,287

12,142,979

25,292,741

Carmarthenshire County Council

10,787,165

10,474,458

11,286,314

5,743,379

10,879,703

Ceredigion County Council

2,726,740

6,018,916

8,722,388

8,084,218

6,702,299

City of Cardiff Council

32,796,018

44,394,471

35,981,011

43,444,064

73,523,934

Conwy County Borough Council

3,039,926

3,311,199

5,428,093

1,945,272

4,464,240

Denbighshire County Council

2,023,514

3,018,074

5,207,249

3,073,961

5,922,763

Flintshire County Council

7,394,849

15,901,270

8,764,844

3,794,253

16,141,252

Gwynedd Council

6,091,374

6,581,029

7,502,815

7,681,361

10,490,639

Isle of Anglesey County Council

1,927,145

5,967,576

6,555,545

10,170,965

4,189,316

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

2,751,288

1,790,477

9,963,873

20,600,879

30,915,785

Monmouthshire County Council

1,349,262

3,109,780

10,868,133

28,564,332

13,632,638

Neath Port Talbot Council

27,562,824

18,314,466

6,673,059

935,879

8,642,493

Newport City Council

6,651,910

13,294,730

28,422,951

16,008,492

21,214,504

Pembrokeshire County Council

15,320,815

24,405,390

5,057,183

12,237,029

12,240,849

Powys County Council

4,692,828

9,018,600

14,943,708

11,075,404

4,690,795

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

11,968,070

18,605,853

36,519,273

38,868,402

30,187,708

Swansea (City & County of) Council

23,884,840

17,402,072

11,393,049

1,504,848

8,632,198

Torfaen County Borough Council

4,213,753

11,167,008

7,081,363

7,573,318

15,366,089

Vale of Glamorgan Council

38,479,366

25,369,974

17,186,074

6,137,620

8,430,505

Wrexham County Borough Council

3,974,429

8,320,605

10,455,335

2,940,765

7,159,258

Grand Total

218,530,719

260,376,452

276,137,123

255,376,827

336,677,105