The education secretary has appointed a former Conservative MP and minister as chair of government property company LocatED.
Former business and housing minister Mark Prisk took up the three-year role at LocatED earlier this month, after getting the nod from Gillian Keegan.
The arms-length body is responsible for buying and managing school sites on behalf of the Department for Education.
It has in recent years also been tasked with investigating how disused school land can be used, and how to decarbonise the school estate.
Prisk, who represented Hertford and Stortford from 2001 to 2019, will earn £1,000 a day for an estimated 25 days a year at LocatED, the DfE said.
