Schools: Funding Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Funding

Lord Harris of Haringey Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd March 2016

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Harris of Haringey Portrait Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab)
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My Lords, need and deprivation—I think that that is what the noble Baroness meant—are going to be at the core of the new system. Will the Minister give us an assurance now that in, say, four years’ time, when we look back at how this new formula has been applied, it will not simply have benefited Conservative-controlled areas?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I can give the noble Lord that assurance. It is quite clear that the formula will benefit many areas that are Labour controlled, and it is being driven entirely on the basis that we have a level playing field for all pupils so that we can deliver educational excellence everywhere.