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Lord Lexden

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Green Climate Fund
Monday 27th October 2014

(9 years, 6 months ago)

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I do not have the exact answer to that question, but it is likely that a high proportion of all cases of fraud, whether in academies or in local authority maintained schools, will be uncovered by whistleblowers.

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Is my noble friend confident that the Government’s financial controls are sufficiently extensive and rigorous?

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I am confident of that. Since this Government came into power we have halved the cost of running the Department for Education, halved the cost of building schools, and reduced by more than one-third the cost of opening sponsored academies.

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