The DfE says that, despite a 60% cut in education capital spending over the next four years, the coalition is still spending more per year on schoolbuilding work than the previous government did in its first two terms.
Thefirst night we slept in a school, the second night in an empty building and last night we made use of a Government house with enough beds for half of the group.
When Education Secretary Michael Gove announced in May last year that 261 schools would be rebuilt or refurbished through his new Priority SchoolBuilding Programme, he said work would "begin immediately", with thefirst schools opening in 2014.