6. Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report: School Funding in Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:54 pm on 23 October 2019.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 4:54, 23 October 2019

I'm very grateful for you taking the intervention. The reality is that there is a combination of factors that deal with school funding, not only the cash that is coming from Westminster, which you've already heard is going up by hundreds of millions of pounds from next year, but also it's affected by the way that you carve up that cash here as a Welsh Government, and the way that you distribute that cash across Wales. Now, the reality is that, in my own constituency in north Wales, both of those local authorities have been hit by a huge squeeze on their finance as a result of increases in council funding coming to places in south Wales, such as Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and others, while at the same time cuts are being imposed in Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey. Why is that the case? Unacceptable.