Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated cost of addressing school maintenance backlogs has been in each local authority area in each of the last five years.
The Scottish Government does not hold this information. Local authorities have statutory responsibility for maintaining their school estate, including determining the investment needed to address maintenance backlogs.
However, the latest School Estate Statistics, published in September 2025, show that the proportion of schools in “good” or “satisfactory” condition has reached a record 92%, a substantial rise from 62.7% in 2007 when this Government first took office. We are driving further improvement by providing significant ongoing investment to local authorities through the £2 billion Learning Estate Investment Programme.