Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on long-term funding for local authorities.”
Tabled: 4 July 2023Answered: 10 July 2023
Asked by
Helen Hayes
Labour — Dulwich and West Norwood
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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.