Education Funding In Kent

EDM number 709 in 1994-95, proposed by Jacques Arnold on 28/02/1995.

That this House notes that the Lib-Lab pact in control of Kent County Council has failed fully to finance the teachers' pay settlement and has deliberately short-changed the school budgets, despite receiving an above average Government funding and windfall receipts, which would have allowed them fully to fund the schools had they adopted the budget proposals tabled by Conservative county councillors; congratulates the parents of 88 Kent schools on voting to become grant maintained; and observes that with the loss of responsibility for those schools, for further education colleges and for the Careers Service, Kent County Council should have proportionately reduced central bureaucratic costs, whereas under Labour and Liberal Democrat control, central staffing has risen by 862.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.