division_name: School Funding
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c357.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House regrets the impact of school funding cuts on the ability of children to reach their full potential; and calls on the Government to ensure that all schools have the funding that they need to provide an excellent education for every child.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c357.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Under a future Conservative government, the amount of money following your child into school will be protected. There will be a real terms increase in the schools budget in the next Parliament.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c357.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I can tell you, with a Conservative Government the amount of money following your child into school will not be cut.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c357.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an 8 per cent cut in pupil funding&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Britain has a deep social mobility problem, and for this generation in particular, it is getting worse not better&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an unfair education system, a two-tier labour market, an imbalanced economy, and an unaffordable housing market.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We still have too many underperforming schools and low overall levels of numeracy and literacy. England remains the only OECD country where 16 to 24-year-olds are no more literate or numerate than 55 to 64-year-olds.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I don&#8217;t get this and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s particularly fair.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Every secondary school in Trafford will lose funding, even though it is one of the places famously underfunded for education.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c358.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The bottom line is that it&#8217;s created some distorted outcomes which we think require some significant remodelling.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c360.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;reduce the curriculum offer and cut out the whole of the community team. We have reduced staffing and reduced the leadership team.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c362.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;shares the strong commitment of the Government to raising school standards and building a country that works for everyone; and welcomes proposals set out in the Government's open schools national funding formula stage two consultation to move to a fair and consistent national funding formula for schools to ensure every child is fairly funded, wherever in England they live, to protect funding for deprived pupils and recognise the particular needs of pupils with low prior attainment.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c370.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;small budget lines are being nibbled away and in the end this is going to have a massive cumulative impact.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c370.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;How are we able to make our pupils effective members of society, who are able to be employed, if support agencies such as CAMHS are also having their funding reduced?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c374.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Regions that are already less prosperous&#8230;are in danger of adding a learning deficit to their economic one.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c374.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;could make spending choices that put educational outcomes at risk.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c377.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If schools&#8217; budgets are cut, at a time when costs are increasingly significantly, it can only have a negative effect on the education that we are able to deliver.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c377.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">We will not be able to employ the number of high quality teachers and leaders that we need to be able to maintain standards.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c377.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that the government is trying to redistribute a pot of funding that is just too small. Cutting funding hardest in London, rather than giving all schools the money they need for teachers, buildings and equipment, is divisive and just plain wrong.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c378.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;lower performance across these regions cannot be fully accounted for by poverty or by differences in school funding.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c382.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Schools are able to decide on, and make assessments of, the support they provide for their pupils, based on their individual needs.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c388.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;At Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, only a third of pupils achieved 5 good GCSEs. Now almost three-quarters do&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c388.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we are already stretched to the limit and it is a very bleak outlook knowing that we will have to make further reductions...the Government must invest in schools for the sake of our children and future.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c389.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it does appear that the &#8216;fairer&#8217; funding model being discussed is far from fair.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c396.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If Education really is a priority, we need the staff to help us deliver it!&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c396.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;invariably being set up to fail&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c396.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The fundamental issue is that there is not enough money in the system. Teacher recruitment shortages and massive underfunding are placing children&#8217;s education and well-being at risk.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c400.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;approach to managing the risks to schools&#8217; financial sustainability cannot be judged to be effective or providing value for money&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c404.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c404.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 178, Noes 285.</p>