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Debate between Sam Rushworth and Lindsay Hoyle
Monday 28th April 2025

(3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I can save the Minister. That question is about Opposition policy, which is not her responsibility.

Sam Rushworth Portrait Sam Rushworth (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
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I am deeply concerned about the funding of Howden-le-Wear primary school in my constituency. After years of real-terms cuts, it is now making four teaching assistants redundant. I will write to the Minister on that to seek her support, but the elephant in the room is that the pay of the chief executive of the multi-academy trust of which it is a member has increased £30,000 over the last two years, taking it to £275,000. That is the equivalent of 12 teaching assistants. Which does she think would be better: one CEO or 12 teaching assistants?

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