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School Closures

Volume 170: debated on Monday 26 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will update the table in the answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn, of 29 June 1989, Official Report, columns 535-36, on school closures, to give information for the calendar year 1989, and the latest information available for 1990.

The information is in the following updated table:

Calendar yearNumber of Proposals decidedNumber of Places to be taken out of use by Proposals in column 2Number of Proposals in column 2 approvedNumber of surplus places to be taken out of use as a result of approved proposals
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
1983366104,17433085,606
198429285,86227077,590
1985205101,09718588,218
198617281,66314762,828
198715955,11613445,326
198814564,25611627,170
198914059,52711441,831
11990122,46772,380
1 1 January to 28 February 1990.