Education Funding: Cheshire Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Education Funding: Cheshire

Christian Matheson Excerpts
Wednesday 13th February 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Nick Gibb Portrait The Minister for School Standards (Nick Gibb)
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie, I think for the first time.

I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Ms McVey) on securing the debate. I pay tribute to her and to my hon. Friends the Members for Congleton (Fiona Bruce) and for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) for the way in which they have, over the past few years, brought the issue of school funding in their area to the Department, to me personally and to the Secretary of State. If I may say so, they have had a significant influence on the way in which the national funding formula has been implemented—

Laura Smith Portrait Laura Smith
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Will the Minister give way?