Keith Hill, MP for Streatham, Tessa Jowell, MP for Dulwich & West Norwood and Chuka Umunna, Labour Parliamentary candidate for Streatham, welcomed a funding announcement by the Government this week to start rebuilding local Primary schools.

After a successful application from the Local Authority, Lambeth will receive £12.2m to rebuild and refurbish its primary schools over the next fifteen years.

The funding is part of the Government’s Primary Capital Programme – worth £3.55 billion across England – which will continue Labour investment in the improvement of Primary School facilities. The initiative was confirmed this week by the Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

In joint letter, Hill, Jowell & Umunna said:

“Children deserve the best facilities that we can build and teachers deserve better classrooms to work in. So this funding is a really welcome boost from the Labour government for education in our area.

“This huge capital investment will not only improve the education of our children, but it will help to support jobs in the construction industry and local businesses in these tough economic times. Talk is good but we know it is action like this that Lambeth residents want to see.”

The London Borough of Lambeth was one of 133 English local authorities to have their Primary School Capital strategies approved.