Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps her Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of school funding in County Durham.

Tabled: 5 December 2023Answered: 11 December 2023

Asked by

Grahame Morris

LabourEasington

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves)

The Government remain dedicated to raising living standards for people in Falkirk and across the UK by driving economic growth and bearing down on inflation, which I know continues to squeeze household budgets. Measures announced in my Budget last year are already taking effect: raising the national living wage and the national minimum wage; maintaining the triple lock on pensions; and extending free school meals to more families. Our great British summer savings package builds on that, reducing VAT on a whole range of summer attractions, including, I believe, Airthrill in my hon. Friend’s constituency.