Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the Law

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:37 pm on 17 March 2016.

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Photo of Kevin Foster Kevin Foster Conservative, Torbay 12:37, 17 March 2016

A recent Public Accounts Committee report looked at the pupil premium and highlighted that, due to the vagaries of the existing funding system, funding per pupil in depravation can vary massively. Does the Education Secretary agree that fairer funding will help to tackle that and mean that schools such as those in Torbay will not have to explain why a child there is worth hundreds of pounds less than a child elsewhere?