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Prison Overcrowding
Monday 16th June 2014

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Laws Portrait Mr Laws
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Usually it is appropriate for the local authority to fund transport improvements from its transport budget, but if my hon. Friend sends me the details of the case that he raises, I will look into it carefully.

Lord Beith Portrait Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed) (LD)
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Although the Government’s commitment to rebuild the Duchess’s community high school in Alnwick is very welcome, the problem of furnishing a new-build school is arising there. Will the Minister discuss with me how we can meet that problem?

David Laws Portrait Mr Laws
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I will be happy to have those discussions with my right hon. Friend. I am sure he accepts that where there is furniture and equipment that can sensibly be reused, it should be—it would be ridiculous in these times to waste good furniture and equipment—but where there is a need for support, we will certainly consider that.

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