The announcement includes a promise that core school funding, Sure Start and 16-19 funding would be protected for one year.

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There are funds for specialist schools, academies, extended schools, ethnic minority pupils, and one-to-one tuition, which will now all be wrapped in with the core school funding.

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Stark has been known as a hard-core, old school Teutonic hawk, a staunch defender of a strong euro policy.

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