Number of new sixth form academies compared to schools

From They Work For You: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2014-01-16a.182533.h&s=academies#g182533.r0

Question from Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North, Labour):

How many (a) schools and (b) academies have established sixth forms since 2010; and what the cost to the public purse has been of establishing those sixth forms?



Answered by Edward Timpson Edward Timpson (The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education; Crewe and Nantwich, Conservative):

There have been:

56 school sixth forms
and
82 new academy sixth forms set up since September 2011.

The Department for Education does not have records prior to 2011. The numbers of new sixth forms are as follows:

By year and type Number:

2011/12
New school sixth forms 24
New academy sixth forms 33

2012/13
New school sixth forms 19
New academy sixth forms 18

2013/14
New school sixth forms 13
New academy sixth forms 31

The cost of establishing a new sixth form is not identifiable as a single value.

The Department is not able to report on the capital costs of establishing all new sixth forms since 2010, as these have been handled by a range of different bodies and capital programmes have not separated sixth form costs where, for example, a school was being rebuilt.

The Department does not collect information on capital funds spent by local authorities or by academies on new sixth forms. Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 16 January 2014, c656W)