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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list those schools in East Surrey which were wrongly informed that they had won improvement awards; and if he will make a statement. - (Holding answer 23 April 2001).

Asked by

Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 April 2001

Reference

158378; 367 c360W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 5th March, 364 c3W, on Shakespeare, what plans he has for the examining at GCSE of the required study of Shakespeare and the other literary figures referred to in his Answer.

Asked by

Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 April 2001

Reference

366 c276-7W; 156147

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what representations he has received regarding the teaching of Shakespeare in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement. - (Holding answer 15 February 2001).

Asked by

Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 March 2001

Reference

150539; 364 c3W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many school playing fields there were in (a) 1979 and (b) 1997. - Includes figures and ref to Central Council of Physical Recreation, paper "Sports Fields at Risk". (Holding answer 29 January 2001).

Asked by

Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 February 2001

Reference

147707; 362 c481W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer to the honourable Member for Penrith and The Border of 22nd January 2001, 361 c439-40W, on school playing fields, what the basis is for his estimate of the number of school playing fields sold in England...

Asked by

Peter Ainsworth (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 January 2001

For answer on

5 February 2001

Answered on

5 February 2001

Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer to the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) of 22 January 2001, Official Report, columns 439-40W, on school playing fields, what the basis is for his estimate of the number of school playing fields sold in England in every month between 1979 and 1997. [147774] Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 29 January 2001]: Public concern about the loss of school playing fields led directly to the introduction in October 1998 of section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Before section 77 was introduced, only grant-maintained schools were required to seek consent from the Secretary of State before selling land, including areas of their playing fields. Local authorities and other schools that owned their own playing fields were free to sell without restriction. It is estimated that an average of 40 playing fields a month were sold in this way before October 1998. This estimate is based on the number of playing field disposals at grant-maintained schools between April 1996, when the previous Government further encouraged the disposal of playing fields by relaxing the Local Authority Capital Finance Regulations which governed the use of sale proceeds, and 1 October 1998, when section 77 took effect. During this 30-month period, some 64 grant- maintained schools were given approval to dispose of areas of playing field, which is an average of over two a month. Using the proportion of grant-maintained schools at that time compared with the number of other schools, we estimate the total number of playing field disposals each month to have been around 40. These estimates are in line with answers given previously by the Minister of State, Home Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke), when he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at this Department.

Date

5 February 2001

Reference

147774; 362 c418-9W;362 c418W

House

House of Commons

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