Mike Hedges AM welcomes confirmation that School Building
programme, including Schools in Swansea East will continue until 2021.
Mike Hedges asked questions at the assembly which
highlighted the investment made in 3 local schools, and had confirmation from
Minister Julie James that this programme of investment in local schools will
continue until 2021.
Mike Hedges
‘This is an example of the Welsh Government making a
difference. Three new schools have been completed in my constituency of Swansea
East, at Morriston, Cefn Hengoed and Burlais, Burlais replacing two schools
which were in a terrible condition, not suitable for teaching children. Is this
one of the schemes that’s threatened by the proposed Conservative cuts to
education?’
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Julie James
‘Can I say to the Member that I agree with him that
the three schools in his constituency are particularly lovely? I’ve had the
opportunity to visit them, and, as I say, they very much enhance the local
community, and it’s a real testament to this Government’s commitment to
education that we’ve done it. I’d just like to remind the Chamber that the
first thing the Tories did when they got into office was stop the successful
schools building that the Labour Government put in place and I think that
that’s a tragedy, both for the people in those communities and for education in
general in England, which we all know is in a particularly parlous state at the
moment.
However, this programme is now committed so that the
schools that are committed, as long as they are contractually committed, will
go forward, and the current envelope goes up to 21. So, that will continue, no
matter what happens’.
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