Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Gerry Sutcliffe Excerpts
Monday 3rd December 2012

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Certainly there is very rarely any Question Time in which the hon. Member for Colchester (Sir Bob Russell) does not say something. We are accustomed to that by now, and we are grateful to him for it.

Gerry Sutcliffe Portrait Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South) (Lab)
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Why do free schools not have to provide sports facilities, and how will that help the Olympic legacy?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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All schools need to ensure that their children have access to high-quality sports and physical education facilities and, under regulations that we have brought in, for the first time ever all schools, including independent and free schools, will have to guarantee access to high-quality facilities.