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Schools: Nottinghamshire

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what public funding is being made available for new school buildings at Eaton Hall, Nottinghamshire. (224585)

Eaton Hall is occupied by an independent school. There is currently no Government funding available for new school buildings as the school operates in the independent sector.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the level of public access to new sports facilities funded by the sale of playing fields at Portland School, Worksop. (224586)

In its application to dispose of the surplus playing field land at the school, Nottinghamshire county council indicated that the new sports facilities were to be designed to facilitate out-of-school and extended school activities and would greatly enhance community participation in sport. The community use of the new facilities was to be managed by the private finance initiative provider in conjunction with the local district council.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) which schools in Nottinghamshire have been proposed for either new building or significant rebuilding through the Building Schools for the Future programme in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014; (224904)

(2) when he expects Serlby Park school to be rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme.

Nottinghamshire local authority entered the Building Schools for the Future programme in Wave 6 and is currently developing a strategy for educational transformation for the first phase of schools in Newark, parts of Mansfield and Market Warsop. Expected completion dates for individual schools are not agreed until the Outline Business Case is submitted by the authority to the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Serlby Park School is expected to be included in a later phase of the authority's project.