Civil servants working on free schools

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Department for Education should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Department for Education,

I would like some data on anyone that works on Free Schools, either the department for education or in the efa.

In particular, I wish to see:

1. A current organisational structure chart, including salary grades (but excluding names, only if you deem these too sensitive for publication).

2. The number of staff employed working on free schools, broken down by grade, for each year since 2010

3. The total budget spent on the free schools program, broken down by capital, program and admin, for each year since 2010.

4. The future budget to 2020, again broken by capital, program and admin.

5. Details of the total spend on external consultants or contractors since 2010 and justification for using them (rather than DfE staff).

Please do not reject part 4 of my request - publishing budgets cannot possibly impair policy making - but if you do, then please release parts 1-3 and 5.

Best,

James Hirsch