Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 January 2015.
Robin Walker
Conservative, Worcester
2:30,
19 January 2015
I am grateful to the Minister for that answer and this Government have done more than any other to address long-standing flaws in our school funding system and to commit to fairer funding. We have started the process, as my right hon. Friend says, but it still has further to go. Even with the £6.5 million for Worcestershire, local schools tell me that they are struggling to manage cost pressures. Is my right hon. Friend committed not just to the creation of, but the delivery of, a fair and transparent formula in the lifetime of the next Parliament?
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