Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 75W, on academies: land, what (a) amount of public investment and degree of enhancement, (b) amount of private investment and degree of enhancement, (c) length of time the land has been in public use and (d) value of land at the date of determination would trigger a determination in order to protect the public investment in land where it ceases to be used by an academy.

All disposals of publicly funded land by an academy would be judged on their individual merits and the Department for Education places no absolute thresholds in such cases. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, would expect to balance the considerations listed against the circumstances under which the land in question is being disposed, and the future plans for it following disposal.

Guidance on academy land transfers is published online at: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/254887/land_transfer_advice_april_2013.pdf