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Building Schools

Put that the Times today had said that there were no new schools being built as promised, the PMOS said that if people looked at the figures on building schools and at the amount of money that was going into building schools, then they would see that there was an enormous amount of effort going on. The PMOS said that there was a six-fold increase in capital investment in schools from £643 million to £6.4 billion, and that was set to rise to £8 billion by 2010/2011. That was under the "Building Schools for the Future" programme. We were investing a further £7 billion over 15 years to refurbish half of the 17,000 primary schools in England. We had also streamlined the planning and design process, improved management and leadership at local authority level and were now making good ground. That, however, could not be turned around in a day, given the lack of investment in the past.

Put that it had not been a day, but rather, had been going on for years, the PMOS replied that if people looked at the amount of work that had gone on, it was an impressive list of achievements.

Asked if the report in the Times was wrong, the PMOS replied that we would dispute the interpretation.

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