Free Schools

(asked on 27th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason she did not publish the applications forms for the Kings Science Academy, Bradford and the Beccles Free School, Suffolk along with the application forms for the other successful Wave 1, 2 and 3 free schools; and if she will publish those application forms.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

In the interests of transparency we plan to release all successful free school applications. The first part of this transparency release was on 16 January 2015 when we published successful applications from waves 1 – 3. The department aims to publish successful applications from waves 4 – 7 in June.

There is an ongoing police investigation at Kings Science Academy, Bradford, and it would be inappropriate to release the application at this time.

The Beccles Free School, Suffolk, application was published the following working day on 19 January 2015.

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