Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

David Mowat Excerpts
Monday 15th November 2010

(13 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Hayes Portrait The Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning (Mr John Hayes)
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The hon. Gentleman will understand that the Government are acting on the basis of evidence. I assure him that our determination is to ensure that disadvantaged learners are protected. He will know that the evidence conducted for the Department and for the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggested that the deadweight costs of the current arrangements were at 90%. That is not acceptable; he must understand that.

David Mowat Portrait David Mowat (Warrington South) (Con)
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T3. The comprehensive spending review has set out that we intend to spend £16 billion on about 600 schools during the spending period as a replacement for the Building Schools for the Future programme. The Secretary of State will be aware that a number of initiatives, pursuant to BSF, were lost in Warrington. When does he expect to be in a position to announce the results of his capital review?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I expect to be able to announce later this year the findings of the capital review on how we can better allocate capital. My hon. Friend is absolutely correct to say that we are spending more than £16 billion on school buildings over the next four years, which is just under twice what was spent in the first eight years of the Labour Government.