Woking’s Conservative MP votes to cover up school concrete crisis 

Woking’s Conservative MP, Jonathan Lord, yesterday voted against a parliamentary motion which would have forced the Government to publish key information on the RAAC crisis. 

Local Lib Dem candidate demands answers and emergency funding for all impacted schools, especially the three Surrey schools impacted by RAAC. 

The Conservative MP for Woking voted to block the publication of spending requested by the Department for Education to fix RAAC school roofs, amid revelations that funding requests were blocked by Rishi Sunak during his time as Chancellor.  

The Lib Dems voted for the motion and have been pressuring the Government to be transparent about their funding decisions when it comes to school maintenance. 

Will Forster, the local Lib Dem party spokesperson, has slammed the Conservative MP for Woking for their “utter contempt” for Woking’s constituents after they voted to cover up the thinking behind the Government’s decision to underinvest in school maintenance.  

Lib Dem spokesperson for Woking, Will Forster, said: 

“Parents deserve to know the truth about the safety of their children in school.  We need to have full transparency from the Government over what led us to this point.” 

 “How else can we fully understand the situation if the Government hides the facts?  Yet again it feels like we are being left in the dark and taken for granted by Conservative Ministers.” 

“For Jonathan Lord to not want to see this information made public speaks volumes.  They would rather see Rishi Sunak and the Government cover up their underfunding of schools than allow their constituents to understand how we got into this crisis.  It shows their utter contempt for the constituents of Woking and we deserve better.”