Oral Question·Department 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.