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Question follow-through · 22538

Schools: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to state-funded primary and secondary schools regarding the community use of school sports halls and facilities outside of school hours; and what steps she is taking to make

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to state-funded primary and secondary schools regarding the community use of school sports halls and facilities outside of school hours; and what steps she is taking to make

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The department encourages schools to make their facilities available to benefit their wider communities outside core school hours, where appropriate. Governing bodies of maintained schools have powers to provide community use of their facilities, and, whi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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