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Question for Department for Education

UIN 907048, tabled on 13 January 2015

Question

Mr David Ward
Liberal Democrat
Bradford East
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Bradford has enough school places.

Answer

Mr David Laws
Liberal Democrat
Yeovil
Commons

Answered on

19 January 2015

Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area. We have committed £5 billion between 2011 and 2015 to help local authorities to create new school places, and an additional £2.35 billion up to 2017. Bradford has been allocated £88million in Basic Need funding for 2011 to 2017, in addition to centrally funded places through the Free Schools programme.

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