Written Question
Monday 10th November 2014
Asked by:
Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in each region and constituent part of the UK have had construction work (a) started and (b) completed in the Priority School Building Programme.
Answered by David Laws
The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 261 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).
The following school buildings have been handed over:
- Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham
- Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire
- Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire
- Hill Top School, Gateshead
- Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees
- Lees Brook Community School, Derby
- Mill Green School, St. Helen’s
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry
- Stratford School Academy, Newham
- The Cedar School, Southampton
- Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland
- West Cornforth Primary School, Durham
- Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry
- Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry
Construction work is continuing at a number of the above schools to demolish the old dilapidated buildings.
As of 13 October, construction work was ongoing at the following 54 schools:
- Alice Stevens School, Coventry
- Bank View High School (with Redbridge High School), Liverpool
- Barnard Grove Primary School, Hartlepool
- Camberwell Park Specialist Support School, Manchester
- Collegiate High School, Blackpool
- Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham
- Ernesford Grange Community School, Coventry
- Flowery Field Primary School, Tameside
- Forest Lodge Primary School, Leicester
- Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire
- Fox Hill Primary, Sheffield
- Foxfield School, Wirral
- Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire
- Goole High School, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Grangefield School, Stockton-on-Tees
- Hallmoor School, Birmingham
- Handale Primary School, Redcar and Cleveland
- Harris Academy Greenwich, Greenwich
- Haytor View Community Primary School, Devon
- Highfurlong School, Blackpool
- Hill Top School, Gateshead
- Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Hartlepool
- Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees
- King James I Academy Bishop Aucklandm, Durham
- Laleham Gap School, Kent
- Lawford Mead Primary (replaces Lawford Mead Infant and Lawford Mead Junior Schools), Essex
- Lees Brook Community School, Derby
- Manor College of Technology, Hartlepool
- Mill Green School, St. Helens
- Montacute School, Poole
- North Cambridge Academy, Cambridgeshire
- Pardes House Primary School, Barnet
- Prince Edward Primary School, Sheffield
- Redbridge High School (with Bank View High School), Liverpool
- Reigate Primary School, Derby
- Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry
- Smarden Primary School, Kent
- St Anthony's Catholic Girls' Academy, Sunderland
- St John's Church School, Peterborough
- St Michael's Catholic Academy, Stockton-on-Tees
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry
- Stratford School Academy, Newham
- Suffolk New Academy, Suffolk
- The Canterbury Primary School, Kent
- The Cedar School, Southampton
- The Edith Borthwick School, Essex
- The Grove Primary School, Devon
- The Highfield School, Hertfordshire
- Thomas Gainsborough School, Suffolk
- Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland
- West Cornforth Primary School, Durham
- Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry
- Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry
- Wyvern College, Wiltshire
Written Question
Thursday 6th November 2014
Asked by:
Lord Cryer (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in each region and constituent part of the UK are on the Priority School Building Programme.
Answered by David Laws
The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 261 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).
The first school opened in May 2014 and all schools within the programme will be delivered by the end of 2017, two years earlier than originally announced.
A full list of the schools in the programme, by region, is published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276240/psbp_-_schools_prioritised_for_the_programme.pdf
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Mar 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"Bogus self-employment continues to spread through the construction industry, in part because the number of HMRC employer compliance inspections has halved in four years. Does the Secretary of State regret that?..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2014
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"The Minister confirmed just a few minutes ago that women who become pregnant can and do face discrimination at work. Why, then, are the Government going to charge those women £1,200 to go to an industrial tribunal?..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Dec 2013
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"12. If his Department will make an assessment of the main causes of insecurity in the workplace...."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Dec 2013
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"An increasing proportion of the work force is subject to zero-hours contracts. Does the Minister think that they have anything to do with job insecurity? Do they contribute to insecurity or do they contribute to security?..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Nov 2013
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"14. What his policy is on oversight of free schools...."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Nov 2013
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"Well, that is a bit of a shock, because it is widely accepted that the democratic scrutiny and oversight of state schools is pretty intense but hardly exists at all for free schools. Does the Secretary of State not worry that that has led to the scandals of the past …..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2013
Academy Status
"I applied for an Adjournment debate on academy schools because Snaresbrook primary school in my constituency was told some time ago that it was likely to become an academy. It is clear that the parents, governors, teachers, staff and surrounding community are opposed to that. The ward councillors, all three …..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2013
Academy Status
"I have no hesitation in agreeing with the hon. Gentleman about that, and I was about to praise him for his work in supporting the campaign for the school to remain a maintained school. A number of children from his constituency are at the school and we have worked together …..."Lord Cryer - View Speech
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