Schools Update: National Funding Formula Debate
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Lord Lucas
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Schools Update: National Funding Formula
Lord Lucas Excerpts(7 years, 2 months ago)
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Lord Lucas (Con)
My Lords, would my noble friend not agree that what the Opposition Front Benches meant to say was that they are immensely grateful to this strong and stable Government for grasping the nettle and making a reform that they jolly well should have made when they were in power?
Lord Nash
Well, it is true that we are the first Government who have actually done this. It is not easy and I pay tribute to the officials in the Department for Education. They tell me that they have been working on this for at least 10 years, as I am sure the noble Lord, Lord Knight, knows, and are personally delighted that it has happened.