Question follow-through · 16299
Schools: Playing Fields
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded school playing pitches have been sold in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded school playing pitches have been sold in each of the last five years.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
As part of the department’s transparency data, a register of decisions to dispose of school playing field land is published on GOV.UK: www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-land-decisions-about-disposals. Playing field land is defined as land in the o...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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