Oral QuestionDepartment for Exiting the European Union

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 11 June 2018Answered: 14 June 2018

Asked by

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Josh MacAlister)

The Government’s spending watchdog reported in 2017 that planned free schools would add an estimated 57,500 more spare school places. We are taking a common-sense approach, so that we can prove value for money from every pound of taxpayer money spent.