Schools: Sportsgrounds

(asked on 15th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of school playing fields that have been sold in 2020.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 23rd June 2020

The Department is keen to protect school playing fields and schools are only able to sell playing fields when they demonstrate that the disposal does not impact their curriculum and that they have explored all possible alternatives.

The Department periodically updates a playing field decision list on GOV.UK and the next update will be in July. The Department is currently collating data for this update. The list is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-land-decisions-about-disposals.

Reticulating Splines