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School Funding Reform

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

531 c792-810 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Education

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2011-1278
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Pat Glass | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Education Committee I was recently invited to a meeting with Lord Baker and Lord ...

Paul Goggins | 531 c800-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Secretary of State said about additional school places from September of next yea...

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Oliver Heald | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) Knights Templar school in Baldock in my constituency is an outstanding community school that provide...

Lord Gove | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) Yes. All schools—academies, community schools and voluntary-aided schools—and local authorities that...

Stephen Twigg | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) Five schools in my constituency lost out with the cancellation of BSF, including St John Bosco and H...

Jane Ellison | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the statement, which I know will be read with great interest by, in particular, the...

Lord Gove | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) We will absolutely ensure that capital gets to those who need it more quickly, as a result of the Ja...

Lord Gove | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) We will absolutely seek to ensure that academies are fairly funded and that they are neither penalis...

Lord Gove | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) A case for fairness well made, which we will seek to meet.

Nicholas Dakin | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) Will the full survey of the school estate include sixth-form colleges, and can they bid for capital ...

Lord Gove | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) We have benefited from looking at some of the PFI schemes that were inaugurated under the previous G...

Pauline Latham | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement of the fair funding formula, which is something I ha...

Lord Gove | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) I had the pleasure of visiting Ian Ramsey school, which is a superb school with great leadership tha...

Ann Coffey | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said in his statement that he would police the new privately financed school ...

Lord Gove | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) In that speech, the right hon. Gentleman paid tribute to the success of the Conservative donor, Sir ...

Lord Wharton of Yarm | 531 c802 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that Ian Ramsey school in my constituency has a particularly dire need ...

Andy Burnham | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) A Labour academy.

Lord Gove | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for making those points, but we must agree to differ on EMA. I think ...

Lord Spellar | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) I speak as Member of Parliament for one of the six boroughs that took legal action, and I wish to ex...

Lord Gove | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is a formidable constituency Member of Parliament. He invited me to make su...

Annette Brooke | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State kindly arranged for civil servants to visit Montacute school, an outstanding ...

Bill Esterson | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that the outstanding and good schools that are most likely to become ac...

Speaker | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I think we understand the thrust of his question.

Lord Gove | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) That is a thoughtful question, but behind it lies an uncomfortable fact for the hon. Gentleman. If t...

Lord Gove | 531 c802-3 (Link to this contribution) We want to make sure that all schools are capable of bidding under the scheme, and we want to make s...

Lord Gove | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) There are many parts of the country that have serious problems with population growth, including Str...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 531 c804-5 (Link to this contribution) I would expect Birmingham to be one of the local authorities to benefit from the Secretary of State'...

Lord Gove | 531 c805 (Link to this contribution) As my noble Friend Lord Adonis has pointed out, education in Birmingham needs many things to change,...

Robert Buckland | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) Will the new capital building programme offer opportunities for special schools such as Crowdys Hill...

Richard Fuller | 531 c805 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's focus on special schools will be particularly welcome to the Ridgeway, St Joh...

Lord Gove | 531 c805 (Link to this contribution) That is a very fair point. I have sought in the consultation—and we will seek in the decisions that ...

Lord Gove | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) Again, that is a thoughtful question. First, our consultation on reform of LACSEG—the local authorit...

Julie Hilling | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) At a time of devastating cuts to local authority budgets, will local authorities face yet another in...

Lord Gove | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, and I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the effective way in which he has lobbied ...

James Morris | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware from representations that I have made to him that, as has also ...

Andy Burnham | 531 c795-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and wish him the best of British in securing media ...

Lord Gove | 531 c792-5 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on our plans to reform school fu...

Lord Gove | 531 c797-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the broadly constructive tone of his response. He asked a serie...

Barry Sheerman | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the Secretary of State that ““modern, fair and just”” is a description that we all aspi...

Lord Gove | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct.

Speaker | 531 c798 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, but I remind the House ...

Stella Creasy | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) On Thursday I will meet school governors from Walthamstow. The Secretary of State has just, again, c...

Lord Gove | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely correct. What I want to do is make sure that the schools in greatest need receive...

Andrew Bingham | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) Glossopdale community college in my constituency was not due any imminent BSF funding despite being ...

Lord Gove | 531 c799 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes two very fair points. On the first, we want to strike the right balance bet...

Dan Rogerson | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. This long overdue review of the funding formula will e...

Lord Gove | 531 c799-800 (Link to this contribution) That was a passionate case well made, but I have to emphasise that I need to be fair to all local au...

Stephen Metcalfe | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) Woodlands school in Basildon has just received the excellent news that its much-needed rebuild is to...

Lord Gove | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely support local flexibility, and I think that Essex county council has shown admirable im...

Nigel Mills | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) Parents, pupils and teachers alike at the four schools in Swanwick and Alfreton in my constituency t...

Lord Gove | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) Emphatically the latter.

Philip Hollobone | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) May I press the case for Northamptonshire, where the number of primary school places is struggling t...

Lord Gove | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) I am very much aware that all of Northamptonshire, east and west, is benefiting from population grow...

Lord Gove | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Our population has risen for a variety of reasons, and unfor...

Stuart Andrew | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this announcement. The shortage of primary school places is due in part to the baby boom, ...

Lord Gove | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) I am in favour of more flexibility overall, but we need to recognise that money spent on state educa...

Penny Mordaunt | 531 c807 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's statement, especially the announcement on capital funding, and ask the Secretary o...

Charlotte Leslie | 531 c805 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that it is deeply insulting to parents who have wanted a community...

Lord Gove | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) That is a blast of good sense from north of the Humber. My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

Justin Tomlinson | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in congratulating Swindon borough council on seeking to design and build a...

Lord Gove | 531 c805 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a fair point. It is incumbent on all of us to recognise that the provision of s...

Andrew Percy | 531 c805-6 (Link to this contribution) There could be no greater evidence of the inequities in the funding system than the situation in the...

Duncan Hames | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) Wiltshire schooling has long been among the least well funded in England, so I welcome the Education...

Lord Gove | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an impressive case for Worcestershire, as do my hon. Friends the Members for We...

Robin Walker | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the commitment to a new national funding formula—something for which I have been ca...

Lord Gove | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) Swindon council does a lot of things right, and that is just one more.

Lord Gove | 531 c806 (Link to this contribution) That is a very fair point. In our consultation we are explicitly saying that there should be a fixed...

Lord Gove | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) That is a typically shrewd point from my hon. Friend. One of the problems we inherited is that under...

Matt Hancock | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows that Mildenhall college of technology in my constituency is one of the ...

Lord Gove | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) I very much enjoyed my visit to Gloucester and Stroud on Friday, and the first thing I did when I ar...

Steve Brine | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Secretary of State's announcement. Parents in the city of Winchester will have ...

Lord Gove | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) That is a very distinguished point made by my hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hind...

Richard Graham | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) The Education Secretary will know from his recent and very welcome visit to my constituency how grat...

Damian Hinds | 531 c807-8 (Link to this contribution) In making the new capital programme more efficient than BSF, will my right hon. Friend confirm that ...

Lord Gove | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point from another member of the Education Committee. One of the things we want ...

Neil Carmichael | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, and I am particularly interested in the private finance side of things, wit...

Lord Gove | 531 c808 (Link to this contribution) This will be a needs-led process. Putting the jargon aside, that basically means that the money will...

Jason McCartney | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) How quickly will many of the oversubscribed primary schools in my constituency, including Lindley ju...

Lord Gove | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) This autumn, I hope.

Mel Stride | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, particularly his commitment to fairer funding ...

Lord Gove | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) I visited almost all the local authorities in the F40 area—very possibly because they contain a numb...

Bob Blackman | 531 c809 (Link to this contribution) The London borough of Harrow was at the absolute bottom of the queue for BSF funding, because all th...

Lord Gove | 531 c809-10 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the finance will be flowing in this financial year. That is the intention. I appreciate ...

Lord Barwell | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) There is huge pressure on school places in the borough of Croydon, partly as a result of the UK Bord...

Lord Gove | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) That plug has been registered, and I hope that it will appear in the South London Press and other ne...

Bob Stewart | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) My constituency has one or two of the primary schools that are now in urgent need of repair. How lon...

Lord Gove | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) We are prioritising that survey and we hope that it can take place within a year, but that need not ...

Speaker | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) Let me take this opportunity to inform the House that after the Front-Bench exchanges had been compl...

Lord Gove | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) We will seek to allocate that money to the local authority areas where there is the greatest populat...

Robert Halfon | 531 c810 (Link to this contribution) In contrast to the hon. Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass), my constituents are passionate abo...

Lord Gove | 531 c801 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his typically well-made point. One reason why schools ...

Nadhim Zahawi | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's announcement of more basic need funding. I urge him and the Gover...

Lord Gove | 531 c800 (Link to this contribution) I hope to take decisions this autumn. I would not wish precipitately to raise hopes in any part of t...

Lord Gove | 531 c803 (Link to this contribution) That work will help to inform decision making. I will work with the hon. Lady to make sure that she ...

Lord Gove | 531 c804 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. It is critical that we recognise that some schools that have not received the investment...

Graham Stuart | 531 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement from the Secretary of State. Too many areas, particularly rural areas, have ...

Subjects

Construction Capital investment Design Finance Judicial review Local government finance Public consultation Standards Repairs and maintenance Surveys Academies Building schools for the future programme Education Capital Review Maintained schools

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