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 Richard Graham Richard Graham Conservative, Gloucester 2:27, 6 September 2023

None of us should be here to criticise the scrutiny of safety in schools, so can I thank the Department for dispatching fast, as requested, two surveyors to look at the one school in my Constituency of Gloucester that is potentially affected? I also thank them for completing their mission fast, so that the head could today confirm to his teachers, parents and pupils alike that there is no RAAC in the school whatsoever.

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