Education

Emma Lewell-Buck Excerpts

Tuesday 19th June 2018 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from the Westminster Hall debate on the National Funding Formula: Social Mobility on 22 May 2018.

[Mrs Lewell-Buck]

The Minister is talking about fairness and equity in the system, but what does he say to a school in the north-east that, according to the National Education Union, is set to lose £8,000 per pupil? How is that fair?

[Nick Gibb]

What the NEU is doing with its school cuts campaign is misleading. It is taking the cost pressures that we have acknowledged and telling the public that those are funding cuts. I have been clear that no school has had a funding cut. School funding went up in real terms per pupil in the last Parliament, and that increase has been maintained in real terms.

[Official Report, 22 May 2018, Vol. 641, c. 326WH.]

Letter of correction from Nick Gibb:

An error has been identified in the response given to the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) in the Westminster Hall debate.