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Schools: Private Finance Initiative

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many private finance initiative funded schools closed prematurely in each of the last five years; and what the cost was to the public purse of (a) establishing and (b) closing those schools. [151471]

Jim Knight: The Department is only aware of one public finance funded school which has closed prematurely in the last five years. (College of Media, Arts and Technology in Brighton and Hove). All detailed cost information for establishing and closing this school is held at the local authority level.

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools have been funded via the private finance initiative in the last five years, broken down by local education authority area. [151472]

Jim Knight: Since April 2001, 457 schools have been funded via the private finance initiative. The following table gives a breakdown by local authority area.

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LEA name	Project name	Number schools
Barking and Dagenham	Barking and Dagenham—Two Schools	2
Barnsley	Barnsley—Thirteen schools	13
Bedfordshire	Mid-Bedfordshire Schools Upper Schools Project	2
Bexley	Bexley—Three Schools	3
Birmingham	Birmingham 2—Twelve Schools	12
Bolton	Bolton—Castle Hill School	1
Bradford	BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1	3
Brighton and Hove	Brighton and Hove—four schools	4
Bristol	Bristol—Grouped Schools Project (Phase 1A)	4
Bristol	BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1	4
Calderdale	Calderdale—Grouped Schools Project	5
Camden	Camden—Haverstock School	1
Cheshire	Cheshire—Ellesmere Port and Neston Schools	6
Cornwall	Cornwall 2—Truro schools	17
Coventry	Coventry—Caludon Castle School	1
Croydon	Croydon—Ashburton School	1
Darlington	Darlington—Five Schools Project	4
Derby	Derby—Grouped Schools	5
Derbyshire	Derbyshire 1—Grouped Schools PFI Project	2
Derbyshire	Derbyshire 2—Long Eaton and Newbold Replacement Schools Project	2
Devon	Devon—Six Schools Project	6
Doncaster	Doncaster—Two schools	2
Dudley	Dudley 2—Paragon Project	2
Ealing	Ealing 1—Ealing Schools Project	4
Eating	Ealing 2—Three schools	3
Enfield	Enfield—Joint Schools Project	3
Essex	Essex 2—NDS—Tendring Schools	12
Essex	Essex 3—Clacton-on-Sea Education Project	3
Gateshead	Gateshead—Group of Schools	7
Harrow	Harrow—Special Schools PFI	3
Havering	Havering—Frances Bardsley School	1
Herefordshire	Herefordshire—Whitecross High School	1
Kent	Kent—Six schools (including Hugh Christie Technology College)	6
Kent	Kent—Swanscombe Schools	2
Kirklees	Kirklees 2—Special Schools Reorganisation	4
Lambeth	Lambeth—Lilian Baylis School and Resource Centre	1
Lambeth	Lambeth ICT—Connected Learning Project	1
Lancashire	BSF Wave 1	10
Leeds	BSF Wave 1	5
Leeds	Leeds 1—7 Schools	7
Leeds	Leeds 2—Ten Primary Schools	10
Leeds	Leeds 3 and 4—Secondary and Post 16 PFI Project	6
Leicester City	BSF Wave 1	6
Lewisharn	Lewisham—Grouped Schools Modernisation (PFI) Project	7
Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire—Seven Schools Project	7
Liverpool	Liverpool—Grouped Schools Project	18
Liverpool	Liverpool—Speke/Garston Lifelong Learning Centre	1
Manchester	Manchester 2—Wright Robinson Sports College	1
Merton	Merton—Age of Transfer	6
Newcastle upon Tyne	BSF Wave 1	3
Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle 1—Six schools	6
Newham	Newham—Joint Schools Project	1
Norfolk	Norfolk 2—Norwich Area Grouped Schools PFi Project	12
North Tyneside	North Tyneside—Four schools project	4
Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire 1—Wooldale Centre for Learning	1
Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire 2—Northampton Review	41
Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire 1—East Leake Schools	2
Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire 2—Bassetlaw Phases 1 and 2	8
Oldham	Oldham—Grouped Schools	2
Peterborough	Peterborough—Secondary Schools Scheme	3
Plymouth	Plymouth 1and 2-Whitleigh Community Campus and Replacement Primaries	9
Redbridge	Redbridge—Oaks Park School	1
Redcar and Cleveland	Redcar and Cleveland—Grouped schools	5
Richmond upon Thames	Richmond upon Thames—Primary Schools	6
Rochdale	Rochdale—Aiming High	4
Rotherham	Rotherham—Grouped Schools	15
Salford	Salford 1—Special Schools Project	3
Salford	Salford 2—High Schools PFI Project	3
Sandwell	Sandwell—Five Schools PFI Project	5
Sheffield	BSF Pathfinder/Wave 1	3
Sheffield	Sheffield Schools Phase 2	2
Sheffield	Sheffield Schools Phase 3	4
Slough	Slough—Three schools	3
Solihull	BSF Wave 1	3
South Tyneside	South Tyneside—Boldon High School	1
Southampton	Southampton—Three Secondary Schools	3
Stockton-on-Tees	Stockton on Tees—Community Campus at Ingleby Barwick	2
Sunderland	Sunderland—Sandhill View School	1
Swindon	Swindon—North Swindon Schools PFI	7
Tameside	Tameside—Hattersley Schools	3
Telford and Wrekin	Telford and Wrekin—Hadley Learning Community Incorporating Jigsaw	3
Tower Hamlets	Tower Hamlets—Grouped Schools	25
Tower Hamlets	Tower Hamlets—Mulberry School	1
Walsall	Walsall—St. Thomas More VA School	1
Waltham Forest	BSF Wave 1	2
Waltham Forest	Waltham Forest 2—Grouped Schools Project	8
West Sussex	West Sussex—Crawley schools scheme	3
Worcestershire	Worcestershire—Bromsgrove Schools	7
York	York—Four schools	4
Total schools	—	457

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