Safety of School Buildings

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:27 pm on 6 September 2023.

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Photo of Gillian Keegan Gillian Keegan The Secretary of State for Education 2:27, 6 September 2023

I will make a bit of progress, and then I will come back to both hon. Members.

As we became aware of the specific issues with RAAC, we supplemented the data collection with more targeted surveys especially for RAAC. That was done so that when we made decisions, we would be able to act. I will leave colleagues to draw their own conclusions from the fact that Labour-run Wales is now playing catch-up to identify where RAAC is in its school estate. On the question from Hywel Williams, we briefed Wales verbally on new technical guidance on 1 September and we shared visual information on three cases over the weekend.