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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Ruth George Excerpts
Monday 14th May 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nadhim Zahawi Portrait Nadhim Zahawi
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This Government have launched the most ambitious reforms of special educational needs and disabilities provision in a generation, and are committed to improving outcomes for children with SEND, especially those who are deaf as well.

Ruth George Portrait Ruth George (High Peak) (Lab)
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I recently met secondary headteachers in my constituency who told me that they were almost at breaking point as a result of cut after cut after cut. When will the Government fund all our schools properly, for the sake of all our children?

Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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Funding for our schools is at the highest level that it has ever been, and we have committed ourselves to protecting per-pupil real-terms funding for the system as a whole over the next couple of years. I recognise that there have been cost pressures on schools, and I am committed to continuing to work with them to do what we can to bear down on those costs.