School Funding Reform Debate

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Department: Department for Education

School Funding Reform

Lord Barwell Excerpts
Tuesday 19th July 2011

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I hope that the finance will be flowing in this financial year. That is the intention. I appreciate that Harrow, like a number of local authorities in London, including Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham, has specific problems. We need to look at them all in the round in order to ensure fair funding for all.

Lord Barwell Portrait Gavin Barwell (Croydon Central) (Con)
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There is huge pressure on school places in the borough of Croydon, partly as a result of the UK Border Agency’s presence there, and we did not get a single penny of funding from Building Schools for the Future, so I very much welcome what the Secretary of State has said. In the absence of the right hon. Member for Croydon North (Malcolm Wicks), may I give a particular plug for the Archbishop Lanfranc school in connection with rebuilding?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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That plug has been registered, and I hope that it will appear in the South London Press and other newspapers that circulate in Croydon.