Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education Settings Debate

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Hywel Williams

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Countess of Chester Hospital Inquiry

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education Settings

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Monday 4th September 2023

(8 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gillian Keegan Portrait Gillian Keegan
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I think the Welsh Government will be providing the response to RAAC in Wales and also the funding for it.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)
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As the hon. Member for Delyn (Mr Roberts) has just said, the schools that are suffering from RAAC were built before devolution and the advent of the Welsh Government and have been inspected properly by the local authority. The Secretary of State has said to the Welsh Education Minister,

“I stand ready to support you”,

yet the Chancellor has said that there is no new money. Might not the people of Wales, and the people of Holyhead and Menai Bridge in particular, feel her words as an empty political gesture?

Gillian Keegan Portrait Gillian Keegan
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I think the hon. Gentleman knows that education is devolved in Wales.

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