Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 January 2015.
David Laws
The Minister of State, Cabinet Office, The Minister for Schools
2:30,
19 January 2015
I agree with my hon. Friend that long-term capital funding is highly desirable and he will know that we have already moved to multi-year allocations of basic need funding. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I are now looking very carefully at the argument for moving to longer term allocations of other parts of the capital budget.
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