Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Davies Excerpts
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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We are spending record amounts on school funding. We are spending £41 billion this year, and that will rise to £43.5 billion by 2019-20. In the new national funding formula, a fair system that previous Governments have shied away from introducing, we give huge priority to funding for the disadvantaged.

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
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During education questions last month, I raised the case of High Crags primary school in my constituency, which had £276,000 snaffled from its funds by Wakefield City Academies Trust shortly before the trust’s collapse. The school is in a very deprived part of the constituency, and, quite understandably, it wants its money back. Will the Minister tell us what he is doing to ensure that that happens?