To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on how many occasions he and his predecessors have intervened in a school which is in special measures in each of the last five years; and what the name of each such school was. (275172)

[holding answer 13 May2009]: The Secretary of State has reserve intervention powers for schools in special measures which are currently contained in sections 67-69 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006. These powers have only been used once in the last five years, when the Secretary of State appointed an Interim Executive Board at Ettingshall Primary School in Wolverhampton in May 2007.