Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Christian Matheson Excerpts
Monday 6th February 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I listened carefully to the response from the Secretary of State, who has not broadened the matter, and therefore the question appertains exclusively to West Sussex.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The hon. Gentleman’s Chester constituency is a considerable distance from West Sussex, but if, and only if, his question focuses exclusively upon West Sussex—

Christian Matheson Portrait Christian Matheson
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Almost exclusively, Mr Speaker?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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No, exclusively. Get in there, man.

Christian Matheson Portrait Christian Matheson
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West Sussex’s education funding has increased by 1.9%—I am very pleased to hear that—but other areas close to West Sussex will have received cuts of up to 1.3%, so why is West Sussex being treated so much more generously?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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The hon. Gentleman is a very fine man, but I am not sure that he would triumph if he appeared on “Just a Minute”.