House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Expenditure Report.

26th October 2006

Commenting on the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Expenditure Report  Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers said:

“When Gordon Brown pledged to raise state school funding to levels enjoyed by the independent sector it was a massive boost to all state schools. I continue to welcome this ambitious target.

“Achieving this target is a responsibility for the whole government and not solely that of the Chancellor as the Select Committee seems to imply.

“I call on all parties to back the Government’s aim by agreeing a national consensus and timetable on when this target can be achieved.

“My belief is that, as the Institute of Fiscal Studies said, the target can be achieved by 2014 at the current rate of education expenditure”.