The federal government has named three corporations given contracts price a complete of £35m to offer non permanent school rooms at faculties affected by the presence of strengthened autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

Algeco UK, Portakabin and Wernick Buildings have been awarded contracts price £11.55m every by the Division for Training (DfE).

The £35m value is more likely to rise because the contracts are resulting from expire on 11 January.

Greater than 100 faculties are more likely to require a full rebuild and won’t be protected to maneuver again into but, and extra faculty buildings containing RAAC are nonetheless being recognized.

The non permanent classroom contracts started in September however weren’t listed on the Contracts Finder procurement web site till greater than two months later.

They got here into impact the day after MPs criticised delays to the availability of cellular school rooms at a session of Parliament’s public accounts committee.

On the time, officers mentioned three contracts had been awarded however declined to call the contractors.

Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier highlighted circumstances of faculties procuring their very own non permanent school rooms and struggling to have them delivered.

The contracts got here to mild this week after Priti Patel, the MP for Witham in Essex, the place numerous faculty and school buildings have been closed resulting from RAAC, requested the division for particulars in a parliamentary written query.

An training choose committee assembly final week heard that the DfE’s record of faculties and schools in England containing RAAC had grown to 231, from the 214 beforehand said on 16 October.

DfE everlasting secretary Susan Acland-Hood defined that round 110 of the faculties recognized have had mitigation put in place utilizing measures similar to hardwood or metal beams.

Requested what number of would should be fully rebuilt, training secretary Gillian Keegan mentioned the quantity was nonetheless being labored out.

“We have now acquired dedication from the Treasury that we are going to do what we have to do to rebuild if there’s greater than the 100 slots [available in the school rebuilding programme] and I anticipate it most likely might be extra,” she mentioned.