Backbench Business — School Funding Formula

Part of Deregulation Bill (Programme) (No.3) – in the House of Commons at 6:46 pm on 10 March 2015.

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Photo of David Heath David Heath Liberal Democrat, Somerton and Frome 6:46, 10 March 2015

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I was one of the founder members of the F40 group back in 1996 as chair of education in Somerset, and signed up to it with a lot of Labour colleagues who then ran county councils, who were equally incensed about this issue. I do not understand—this relates to the point made earlier—why this anomaly was not dealt with when school budgets were rapidly rising. Of course that is more difficult in a period of austerity.