Schools minister David Laws has admitted that some of the 261 schools planned under the first phase of the government's Priority School Building Programme will not in fact be completed by the programme's 2017 deadline, writes Joey Gardiner. But speaking at an education select committee hearing last week, Laws denied claims by the Local Government Association that around half of the schools on the £2bn programme would miss the deadline. Laws told the committee: "There are a very tiny number of schools with specific issues that necessarily are going to cause small delays of an almost unavoidable nature, but that is a tiny, single digit number out of a 260-school programme."
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