Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Brennan of Canton Excerpts

Monday 24th March 2014 Commons Chamber

[Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)]

The Local Government Association recently warned that there is a need to create 130,000 new places by 2017-18. It also warned that because of the Minister’s ideological insistence that these places have to be in free schools and academies, they will not be created where they are actually needed. On what evidence does he believe that community schools and local decision making are always bad?

[Mr Laws]

We do not believe that. Indeed, local community schools are expanding right across the country; the difference between the situation under this Government and under the previous Government is that they have the money to do so.