Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Government’s funding announcement for schools in England, said:

“None of today’s announcement is new money. Seven years of Tory neglect has left our children in crumbling and overcrowded schools.

“The National Audit Office have already told us that existing school buildings across the country are inadequate, while money has been ploughed into inefficient free schools and the Prime Minister’s grammar schools vanity project.

“This announcement will do nothing to address the funding crisis facing schools across the country.”