Core School Budget Allocations - Commons Urgent Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 5:31 pm ar 17 Hydref 2023.

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Photo of Baroness Barran Baroness Barran The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education 5:31, 17 Hydref 2023

I do not accept that the Government delayed action either in relation to RAAC or in this case. In relation to RAAC, when we had new information that came to us as a department, we took the only responsible decision that any Minister could take, which was to take urgent action to ensure that no one was at risk. That was exactly what we did, and we are working closely with schools to resolve the challenges they face as a result. The reason for the error was a mistake in the coding of pupil numbers. Normally, it takes about six weeks to go through that process. We obviously needed to do a thorough quality assurance to make sure that the revised numbers were correct. We did that in four weeks and then there was no delay in announcing it.