See attached a letter from Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for School Standards, regarding a campaign on school funding recently launched by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
The big news in Parliament this week was of course the Autumn Statement, the first and apparently the last to be delivered by new Chancellor Phillip Hammond as he has decided to end this ‘not quite the Budget’ event brought in by Gordon Brown.
Letter from Secretary of State for Transport following the ASLEF ballot:
Dear Colleague
I am writing to you concerning the decision by ASLEF to start strike action on Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR) Southern routes.
There were a lot of facts and figures thrown around at the recent A27 public meeting, as there has been throughout the discussions on this crucial piece of infrastructure in the area.
The meeting at the Pavilion Theatre to give an update on the proposals for upgrading the A27 was packed with standing room only for some of the 800 or so people who packed the hall.
I welcome Ofcom's announcement today that they are proceeding with a formal notification to require the legal separation of Openreach from BT, after BT failed to offer voluntary proposals that address our competition concerns.
Openreach is the division of BT Group that develops and maintains the UK
