MP Preet Gill backs calls for more funding for schools
A West Midlands MP and former Black Country councillor has backed calls for an increase in school funding from the government.
Preet Gill, the MP for Edgbaston and a former Sandwell councillor, spoke in a debate on school funding in the House of Commons yesterday.
The house was debating an e-petition, started by teachers and signed by more than 100,000 people, which calls for an increase in school funding because “schools are having to make difficult choices on how to spend their limited funding as their income has not kept pace with the rise in costs since 2010”.
Ms Gill, who is also the vice-presdient of the Local Government Association, said in the house: "We know the statistics, even if the government often seem unwilling to accept them.
