The Prime Minister has come under pressure over funding he allocated for school rebuilding programmes during his tenure as chancellor.
Labour is demanding to see papers linked to what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was told about the schools concrete crisis
Rishi Sunak has become embroiled in the row after a schools minister suggested the Prime Minister approved for 50 schools to be rebuilt a year when he was chancellor, rejecting an application for 200 to be given the same treatment. As part of the move, it will also push to see all related correspondence ahead of the 2020 and 2021 spending reviews and the 2022 spring and autumn statements to show what advice Mr Sunak was given as chancellor about the need to replace Raac.
On Tuesday, schools minister Nick Gibb suggested that the Prime Minister, when chancellor in 2021, had gone with other priorities over a request to increase funding to fix England’s schools.
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