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School Balances

Put that, from the Prime Minister’s answers at PMQs, he was sympathetic to head teachers re the retrospective nature of the proposals which were aired earlier this year, the PMS said that, as the Prime Minister had said at PMQs, we would listen to the issues raised in the consultation. The consultation was ongoing and did not finish until Friday; we could then expect quite a swift response from DCMS from that consultation. Jim Knight said yesterday, in Parliament, when asked about the claw-back of balances, ‘we are consulting on that, and no decision has been made to do it. The consultation closes this Friday, and I will look to quickly make decisions and announcements, certainly in respect of some aspects. People have raised concerns particularly about the retrospective nature of some of the proposals that we consulted on, and I would like to provide some certainty on that as quickly as I possibly can’. Therefore Jim Knight had acknowledged some of the issues that had been raised in relation to the retrospective nature of some aspects of this proposal, but the consultation was still ongoing until Friday and we could expect an announcement from DCSF. The Prime Minister had made it clear that we would listen to the issues raised in consultation but also it was right that money which was allocated to schools was spent on schools, and we did not want to see ongoing accumulation of balances; we wanted to see the money allocated to schools and spent on schools.

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