Sunak also cut schools' Covid recovery fund despite saying he prioritised it over RAAC repairs

The Prime Minister rejected demands for extra funding to rebuild more schools while he was chancellor

The fresh details cast further doubts over the claims made in Tuesday’s No 10 briefing to journalists that the Prime Minister was forced to prioritise spending on school pandemic funding rather than provide more cash to rebuild schools affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete .

Schools minister Nick Gibb confirmed on Tuesday that his department put forward a bid to rebuild 200 schools a year only for Mr Sunak to stump up funding for just 50 a yearit was “very, very tough to get money out of the Treasury”, and highlighted the Covid school recovery package as an example. “It got to the last 48 hours, it was Boris, Rishi, Gavin all settling on £10billion. And then Rishi literally at the last minute just pulled the plug,” the source added.understands the Treasury refused to fund the biggest component of the recovery package, which was to extend the length of the school day, because changing teacher contracts and paying the workforce more was deemed too expensive.

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