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Written Question
Priority School Building Programme
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:

  1. Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham
  2. Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire
  3. Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire
  4. Hill Top School, Gateshead
  5. Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees
  6. Lees Brook Community School, Derby
  7. Mill Green School, St. Helen’s
  8. St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry
  9. Stratford School Academy, Newham
  10. The Cedar School, Southampton
  11. Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland
  12. West Cornforth Primary School, Durham
  13. Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry
  14. 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:

  1. Alice Stevens School, Coventry
  2. Bank View High School (with Redbridge High School), Liverpool
  3. Barnard Grove Primary School, Hartlepool
  4. Camberwell Park Specialist Support School, Manchester
  5. Collegiate High School, Blackpool
  6. Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham
  7. Ernesford Grange Community School, Coventry
  8. Flowery Field Primary School, Tameside
  9. Forest Lodge Primary School, Leicester
  10. Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire
  11. Fox Hill Primary, Sheffield
  12. Foxfield School, Wirral
  13. Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire
  14. Goole High School, East Riding of Yorkshire
  15. Grangefield School, Stockton-on-Tees
  16. Hallmoor School, Birmingham
  17. Handale Primary School, Redcar and Cleveland
  18. Harris Academy Greenwich, Greenwich
  19. Haytor View Community Primary School, Devon
  20. Highfurlong School, Blackpool
  21. Hill Top School, Gateshead
  22. Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Hartlepool
  23. Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees
  24. King James I Academy Bishop Aucklandm, Durham
  25. Laleham Gap School, Kent
  26. Lawford Mead Primary (replaces Lawford Mead Infant and Lawford Mead Junior Schools), Essex
  27. Lees Brook Community School, Derby
  28. Manor College of Technology, Hartlepool
  29. Mill Green School, St. Helens
  30. Montacute School, Poole
  31. North Cambridge Academy, Cambridgeshire
  32. Pardes House Primary School, Barnet
  33. Prince Edward Primary School, Sheffield
  34. Redbridge High School (with Bank View High School), Liverpool
  35. Reigate Primary School, Derby
  36. Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry
  37. Smarden Primary School, Kent
  38. St Anthony's Catholic Girls' Academy, Sunderland
  39. St John's Church School, Peterborough
  40. St Michael's Catholic Academy, Stockton-on-Tees
  41. St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry
  42. Stratford School Academy, Newham
  43. Suffolk New Academy, Suffolk
  44. The Canterbury Primary School, Kent
  45. The Cedar School, Southampton
  46. The Edith Borthwick School, Essex
  47. The Grove Primary School, Devon
  48. The Highfield School, Hertfordshire
  49. Thomas Gainsborough School, Suffolk
  50. Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland
  51. West Cornforth Primary School, Durham
  52. Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry
  53. Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry
  54. Wyvern College, Wiltshire

Written Question
Priority School Building Programme
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


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