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Clive Live in Parliament: Schools Funding Debate 7th July 2010

The Minister for Education Michael Gove was forced to apologise for misleading hundreds of schools into believing that their funding for builds were going ahead as planned.

In these questions seen below Clive Efford MP questions whether Michael Gove was in fact fully aware of the mistakes prior to making the speech on Monday.  The MP for Eltham was asked by the Speaker of the House to withdraw his comments.

1. School's Funding (7th July 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

It is extraordinary how this list was produced and put before the House. Let us recall what happened on Monday: the Secretary of State was cuddling the list as if it contained secret information, and he slipped bits out only as they were forced from him in response to questions from Opposition Members. Therefore some of us on the Opposition Benches suspect that the Secretary of State knew that the list was not complete and that there were errors in it when he was delivering it in the House- [Interruption.]

2. School's Funding (7th July 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

I did say that some of us suspect that that is the case, Mr Speaker, and if you ask me to withdraw that, I will obviously do so, but I think there is something that needs to be investigated further in the way that the Secretary of State treated the House. [Interruption.]