Andrew Rosindell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Rosindell on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government plans to take to meet demand for school places in Romford.

Nick Gibb

The Government is investing £23 billion in school buildings to create 600,000 new school places, open 500 new free schools and address essential maintenance needs.

Havering local authority received £23 million of basic need funding between 2011 and 2015, which helped to create nearly 3,000 new places between 2010 and 2014.

It has also been allocated a further £47 million to create the places needed by 2018.