Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 7 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the reported 30 schools for which there is no recorded last condition survey date are recorded as being in "Good" condition in its School Estate Statistics 2025.
Schools built within the past five years may not yet have had a condition survey and the condition rating is based on the state of the school at the time of completion of the building works.
In situations where schools were built under PPP (Public-Private Partnerships), PFI (Private finance initiative) or similar arrangements which included school maintenance contracts, local authorities report that the buildings are monitored and maintained by a third party.
It is local authorities’ responsibility to ensure schools built under such arrangements continue to be maintained to a sufficiently high standard, given the maintenance contract that will be in place.