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  Academies Bill - New Academies Only Where There is Proven Need -rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against requiring new academy schools to only be built in areas where there is a proven need for additional capacity. 
  
  Schools obtaining "academy status" under the act would have greater financial independence and would be removed from local authority control. 
  
  The text of the defeated amendment was:
  
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  :(za) if the school is an additional school, the school meets a proven need for additional capacity in the area in which the school is situated;'.
  
  If adopted the proposed additional text would have become one of the mandated characteristics of an academy school.  
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/amend/pbc0572107m.75-81.html Amendments sheet] (Amendment voted on is no.20)
  *  [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/057/11057.i-i.html Academies Bill as of 14th July 2010]
  
  
  
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