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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

Sunak rejected funding request to fix more crumbling schools, minister says

PA Wire

Rishi Sunak was under fresh pressure over his role in the concrete crisis after a minister said the former chancellor approved funding for the rebuilding of 50 schools yearly, despite a bid for 200.

Schools minister Nick Gibb suggested on Tuesday that the Prime Minister, when chancellor in 2021, had gone with other priorities over a request to increase funding to fix England’s schools.

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