Part of Education – in the House of Commons at on 2 March 2026.
Dave Robertson
Labour, Lichfield
The ministerial team will be aware that schools in the Arthur Terry learning partnership across my Constituency and six others in the west midlands saw nine days of strike action in January and February. The trust was consulting on staff cuts because it had a multimillion-pound hole in its budget, a hole that senior leaders put down to a mistake in the finances. I am glad that there is now new leadership in place at the Arthur Terry learning partnership, but what steps can our Government take to ensure that trusts are held to account much more strongly than they currently are?
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