Land Sales (Schools)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 October 2009.

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Photo of Keith Vaz Keith Vaz Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee 2:30, 12 October 2009

I wrote to the Minister about two excellent schools in my constituency which share a site in Evington, in Leicester: St. Paul's Catholic school and Leicester grammar school. Leicester grammar school wants to vacate its land and sell it to St. Paul's school, which wants to buy it but has not sufficient resources. As the Minister must pass Leicester to reach his constituency in Gedling, may I ask him to drop by one Friday and try to resolve the matter? I think that with good will and the support of the Government, both schools can get what they want.