Ormskirk School: Construction

(asked on 6th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the building of the current Ormskirk school using funding from his Department was conditional on the terms of the Ormskirk Foundation Trust and the local authority; and if he will place a copy of that lease in the Library.


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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

Ormskirk School moved to its new accommodation in 2004. The land had been part of the site of the former Cross Hall High School, a community school, and was transferred by Lancashire County Council (LCC) in February 2006 to five named individuals who were trustees of the Foundation Trust of the school. The Department for Education was not party to that transfer.

The 2006 Charity Commission scheme for the Foundation Trust provides for the Foundation Trust to retain the land for use as a voluntary school.

Copies of the title number LAN28839 are available on request from LCC or the Foundation Trust and the Land Registry. A copy of the title has been shared with the Department as part of the conversion of the school to become an academy.

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