Question follow-through · 8006
Schools: Leisure Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support is available for school-owned leisure centres that have had departmental funding removed following changes to the Educational and Skills Funding Agency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support is available for school-owned leisure centres that have had departmental funding removed following changes to the Educational and Skills Funding Agency.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
In previous years, some local authorities have applied to the department to request approval to allocate additional funding for schools with leisure facilities, as ’exceptional circumstances’ funding, within their local funding formulae. The department is...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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