School Funding Reform Debate

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Philip Hollobone

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School Funding Reform

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Tuesday 19th July 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Emphatically the latter.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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May I press the case for Northamptonshire, where the number of primary school places is struggling to catch up with population growth that is among the UK’s fastest?

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I am very much aware that all of Northamptonshire, east and west, is benefiting from population growth. It is critical that we meet basic need pressures wherever they are. They are most acute in London and the south-east, but there are many parts of the country where the population is growing fast.

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