Schools: Playing Fields
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Hugh Robertson (- Shadow Minister (Sport and the Olympics), Culture, Media and Sport; Faversham & Mid Kent, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools do not have playing fields of an area of over 0.4 hectares on their premises.
Iain Wright (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families; Hartlepool, Labour)
The Department does not hold estimates of the numbers of schools that do not have their own playing fields, this is a matter for local authorities.
Schools are required to have access to team game playing fields proportionate to their pupil numbers and type.
School playing fields are protected by Section 77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.