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Mr. Laws:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 17 July 2007, Official Report, columns 288-90W, on academies, what the (a) start date for building and (b) opening date or expected opening date is of each academy; and if he will make a statement. [151948]
Jim Knight:
Academies are run by charitable trusts. Academy trusts are responsible for managing the building projects for academies approved before 23 March 2006, when it was announced that Partnerships for Schools (PfS) would take on responsibility for the academies
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buildings programme. The Department does not keep central records of the start dates for buildings where the construction was managed by academy trusts.
The start date for each building project delivered by PfS will be agreed during the contractual negotiations with the selected contractor. None of the academy building projects that PfS are delivering have yet reached this stage.
As a planning assumption, the average length of the construction period for an academy building is taken to be 18 months.
The opening dates or expected opening dates for academies are given in the following table.
Where there is an urgent educational need, some academies begin life in the predecessor school buildings. The first 47 academies on this list are open, expected opening dates are given for the rest of the academies on the list.
| | Academy name | Opening date or expected opening date |
|
1
|
Bexley Business Academy
|
September 2002
|
|
2
|
Greig City Academy
|
September 2002
|
|
3
|
Unity City Academy
|
September 2002
|
|
4
|
Walsall City Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
5
|
Capital City Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
6
|
King's Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
7
|
The West London Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
8
|
Djanogly City Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
9
|
The Academy at Peckham
|
September 2003
|
|
10
|
Bristol City Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
11
|
Manchester Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
12
|
City of London Academy
|
September 2003
|
|
13
|
Lambeth Academy
|
September 2004
|
|
14
|
Stockley Academy
|
September 2004
|
|
15
|
Mossbourne Community Academy
|
September 2004
|
|
16
|
Northampton Academy
|
September 2004
|
|
17
|
London Academy
|
September 2004
|
|
18
|
The Academy of St. Francis of Assisi
|
September 2005
|
|
19
|
Trinity Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
20
|
Marlowe Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
21
|
Salford City Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
22
|
Dixons City Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
23
|
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
24
|
Haberdashers' Knights Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
25
|
Sandwell Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
26
|
Grace Academy Solihull
|
September 2006
|
|
27
|
David Young Community Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
28
|
St. Paul's Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
29
|
Harefield Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
30
|
Macmillan Academy
|
September 2005
|
|
31
|
Barnsley Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
32
|
The Petchey Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
33
|
North Liverpool Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
34
|
The John Madejski Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
35
|
Westminster Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
36
|
Paddington Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
37
|
Sheffield Springs
|
September 2006
|
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|
38
|
Sheffield Park
|
September 2006
|
|
39
|
Walthamstow Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
40
|
Landau Forte College
|
September 2006
|
|
41
|
Gateway Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
42
|
The Harris Bermondsey Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
43
|
The Burlington Danes Academy
|
September 2006
|
|
44
|
Harris Girls Academy East Dulwich
|
September 2006
|
|
45
|
St. Mark's CofE
|
September 2006
|
|
46
|
Harris Academy Merton
|
September 2006
|
|
47
|
Madeley Academy
|
April 2007
|
|
48
|
The St. Matthew Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
49
|
Leigh Technology Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
50
|
Folkestone Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
51
|
Bradford Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
52
|
The Harris Academy South Norwood
|
September 2007
|
|
53
|
Oasis Academy Enfield
|
September 2007
|
|
54
|
St. Mary Magdalene Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
55
|
The Samworth Enterprise Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
56
|
The Thomas Deacon Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
57
|
Harris City Academy Crystal Palace
|
September 2007
|
|
58
|
Ashcroft Technology Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
59
|
John Cabot Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
60
|
The Bridge Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
61
|
Oasis Academy Immingham
|
September 2007
|
|
62
|
Oasis Academy Wintringham
|
September 2007
|
|
63
|
Stockport Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
64
|
Bacon's A Church of England Sponsored Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
65
|
William Hulme's Grammar School
|
September 2007
|
|
66
|
King Soloman Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
67
|
The Belvedere Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
68
|
North Oxfordshire Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
69
|
Swindon Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
70
|
Spires Academy
|
September 2007
|
|
71
|
The Marsh
|
September 2007
|
|
72
|
Brooke Weston Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
73
|
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
74
|
Langley Academy
|
September2008
|
|
75
|
The Corby Business Academy
|
September2008
|
|
76
|
Herefordshire 1 (Steiner)
|
September2008
|
|
77
|
The Globe Academy
|
September2008
|
|
78
|
Evelyn Grace Academy
|
September2008
|
|
79
|
Excelsior Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
80
|
Q3 Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
81
|
Merchants' Academy Withywood
|
September 2008
|
|
82
|
City of London Academy Islington
|
September 2008
|
|
83
|
Sandwell Willingsworth
|
September 2008
|
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|
84
|
Grace Academy Coventry
|
September 2008
|
|
85
|
Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich
|
September 2008
|
|
86
|
Wren Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
87
|
The Rhodesway Academy
|
September 2008
|
|
88
|
City of London KPMG Academy
|
September 2009
|
|
89
|
JCB Academy
|
September 2009
|
|
90
|
Bede Academy
|
September 2009
|
|
91
|
The Chelsea Science Academy
|
September 2009
|
