Oral Question·Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 16 January 2019Answered: 22 January 2019
Asked by
Matthew Pennycook
Labour — Greenwich and Woolwich
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Education (Bridget Phillipson)
The Department is working with schools to plan ahead and organise appropriately for changing demographics. Falling rolls funding is available to local authorities, and more widely we are looking creatively at how we can turn extra space in schools into an opportunity, including through opening up Best Start school-based nurseries to make childcare more accessible and affordable.