Education

Wednesday 16th June 2021 Ministerial Corrections

Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

The following is an extract from Oral Questions on 26 April 2021.

[Kate Green]

The national tutoring programme is reaching only one in six pupils on free school meals, and changes to the school census date mean that schools are also losing out on thousands of pounds of pupil premium funding for those students. Will the Secretary of State now come clean and publish his Department’s full financial analysis of the funding lost to schools from this pupil premium stealth cut?

[Gavin Williamson]

The hon. Lady forever moans and complains about the resources—the extra resources—that we have been putting into schools. Just a short time ago, we unveiled a £14.4 billion expansion of funding into secondary schools.

[Official Report, 26 April 2021, Vol. 693, c. 4.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Education, the right hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Gavin Williamson).

An error has been identified in my response to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green).

The correct response should have been.

[Gavin Williamson]

The hon. Lady forever moans and complains about the resources—the extra resources—that we have been putting into schools. Just a short time ago, we unveiled a £14.4 billion expansion of funding into schools.