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Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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No. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced an additional £1.3 billion in July, as the hon. Gentleman kindly acknowledged. That means that not only have we maintained school funding in real terms, as we did in the last Parliament, but we have maintained school funding in real terms per pupil in this period up to 2020.

Lucy Frazer Portrait Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire) (Con)
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Currently, bids for capital spending on maintenance for schools are assessed on the state of the building. Given that there is significant competition for these bids and it is very difficult to assess the state of buildings in different schools across the country, is there not a case for also assessing the historical underfunding in various areas of our country?