Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Hinds and Rosie Cooper

Monday 17th December 2018 Commons Chamber

[Damian Hinds]

The concern that the hon. Lady mentions is a concern shared by me—I want to go further and faster on social mobility—but I am not quite sure where she gets the idea that the social mobility strategy consists of the research budget of the Social Mobility Commission. Social mobility is at the heart of everything that we do, and we see it in the narrowing of the attainment gap in nursery school, in primary school, in secondary school, in the attainment of level 2 maths and English by age 19 and in university admissions.

[Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)]

3. What assessment he has made of progress on delivering the actions set out in the written statement of action issued in response to the 2017 inspection of services for children and young people with SEND in Lancashire.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Hinds and Rosie Cooper

Monday 12th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)]

14. What assessment he has made of the effect of the additional funding for education announced in Budget 2018 on education funding in real terms.

[The Secretary of State for Education (Damian Hinds)]

In the Budget, the Government invested more than £1 billion of new funding for the Department for Education, including £695 million to improve the number and quality of apprenticeships, £400 million capital for schools, £100 million for the national retraining scheme and £84 million to improve children’s social care.

[Rosie Cooper]

The Secretary of State makes reference to all sorts of streams except revenue funding, so will he confirm that the Budget offered no additional revenue funding for schools and that means that, in real terms, per pupil funding will fall yet again next year, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found?

[Damian Hinds]

No, Mr Speaker. Of course revenue funding is determined periodically at spending reviews. Since the last spending review, we have found an additional £1.3 billion to hold per pupil real terms funding constant on a nationwide level.