Free Schools: North West

Department for Education written question – answered at on 27 February 2015.

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Photo of Mark Hendrick Mark Hendrick Labour, Preston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools there currently are in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West; and how much funding her Department has allocated to the funding of free schools in each such area.

Photo of Edward Timpson Edward Timpson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education

An error has been identified in the written answer given on 12 February 2015.

The correct answer should have been:

In answer to the above question;

  1. There are currently no free schools in Preston.

  2. There are currently three free schools in the local authority area of Lancashire with the total revenue funding allocation of £2,789,724 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

  3. There are currently tenseven free schools in the county of Lancashire, which includes the local authorities of Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, with the total revenue funding allocation of £14,802,909.77£12,013,185 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

  4. The North West has 4041 free schools with a total revenue funding allocation of £54,002,376 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

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Photo of Edward Timpson Edward Timpson The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education

In answer to the above question;

  1. There are currently no free schools in Preston.

  2. There are currently three free schools in the local authority area of Lancashire with the total revenue funding allocation of £2,789,724 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

  3. There are currently tenseven free schools in the county of Lancashire, which includes the local authorities of Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, with the total revenue funding allocation of £14,802,909.77£12,013,185 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

  4. The North West has 4041 free schools with a total revenue funding allocation of £54,002,376 for the academic year 2014 to 2015.

Does this answer the above question?

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No0 people think not

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