The local authority could have provided adequate buildings within that time, and avoided the Present School Places Crisis.
Short-term solutions are needed for the current Crisis in School Places.
Why will the Chancellor not act to resolve Croydon's School Places Crisis, rather than showing the complacency that we witnessed this morning?
As I have said, we would now be facing a Crisis in School Places given everything that did not happen under the last Government, but fortunately - as with the economy, immigration and welfare - this Government had a plan to clear up the previous Government's mess.
In the last Parliament, we protected the schools budget, gave more then £5 billion to tackle Labour's School Places Crisis and spent £18 billion on school buildings - more than Labour spent in their first two terms combined.
Does my hon. Friend accept that in places such as Bradford, where many schools are already full or oversubscribed, it is even more difficult to retain teachers, particularly in the light of the School Places Crisis?
Why has £241 million been spent on free schools in areas that do not have a Crisis in School Places?
Just last week, both Labour and Conservative councillors expressed concern about the School Places Crisis in Redbridge.
It also fails to address major challenges in our education system, such as the growing teacher shortage as recruitment and retention collapses, and it does nothing to solve the Crisis in School Places.
It is quite amazing that, when there are so many real challenges facing the education system on the Conservatives' watch, the first education Bill of the new Parliament does nothing to tackle them: parents concerned about the Crisis in School Places; parents anxious about the crisis in teacher supply; parents worried about changes to the school assessment system.
We heard no mention of how rising class sizes and the Crisis in School Places is to be addressed.
” He says: “I'll play a city-wide strategic leadership role, seeking to make a big dent in the School Places Crisis.