Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Governmente for what reason its School Estate Statistics 2025 record Beath and Queen Anne high schools in Fife as having last undergone school conditions surveys under the 2017 guidance but state that each school's latest survey was carried out in 2007.
The School Estate Statistics reflect information reported to the Scottish Government by local authorities.
In the case of Beath and Queen Anne High Schools, both were rebuilt in the early 2000s under Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts and remain within their contract periods.
In situations where schools were built under PPP which included school maintenance contracts, local authorities report that the buildings are monitored and maintained by a third party. It is the Scottish Government’s expectation that condition surveys are carried out as part of this monitoring and maintenance programme.
It is local authorities’ responsibility to ensure schools built under PPP contract continue to be maintained to a sufficiently high standard, given the maintenance contract that will be in place.