Quote Standee="Standee"Remind me, which government encouraged the sale of School land for development?'"
Introduced by Thatcher to prop up reductions in state school funding and continued by Major
Quote Standee="Big Graeme"The last three.'"
Not quite. Although school playing fields continued to be sold (at a slower rate), under the last Labour government, they introduced more restrictions on which playing fields could be sold (most were from schools that had closed down) and a stipulation that the money raised had to be ploughed back into school sports funding.
EDIT: Figures from Paul Lewis (BBC Moneybox)
Who sold the sports fields? Coalition 21, last Labour 226, previous Conservative 10,000. Of 21, DfE says 14 were closed schools.
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