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ARTICLE · 13 JULY 2010

Building Schools for the Future: Key Issues Arising from Last Week's Cancellation

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In his emergency budget speech delivered on 22 June, the Chancellor George Osborne said that the Government "would undertake a fundamental review of all capital spending plans to ensure that they are affordable and to identify the areas of spending that will achieve the greatest economic returns".

United KingdomGovernment, Public Sector
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
Caroline Cummins
Caroline Cummins
Jason Davies
Jason Davies
Aidan Steensma
Aidan Steensma

In his emergency budget speech delivered on 22 June, the Chancellor George Osborne said that the Government "would undertake a fundamental review of all capital spending plans to ensure that they are affordable and to identify the areas of spending that will achieve the greatest economic returns". The announcement by Education Secretary Michael Gove on 5 July of a complete overhaul of capital investment in England's schools – including the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme – brings home the realisation of what this might mean.

The Chancellor also said in his emergency budget that apart from the capital element of the £6.2 billion savings in 2010-11 (worth £2 billion a year until 2015-16), the Government "will make no further cuts in public sector gross investment compared with the plans that it inherited". This promise was repeated by Michael Gove last week. It appears that the BSF programme is being cancelled, in Mr Gove's

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