8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: School Funding

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:59 pm on 20 February 2019.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 5:59, 20 February 2019

Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. 

There certainly has been a gear change this year in the complaints from schools and local authorities about underfunding. Councils are no longer content to let this Government get away with blaming everything on so-called austerity, and in fact they can't, because the funding floor, introduced by those Conservatives, means that Wales—. Here we get £1.20 for every £1 that is spent in England.