IT’S quite amazing the number of terminological inexactitudes that MPs can espouse from the House of Commons.

The Education Secretary has pledged that an extra £2.6 billion will be available for schools over a two year period (The Press, July 18).

In the small print, this actually means that she is planning to cut the planned increase in new school builds from 140 to 30.

With an increasing child population, this can only lead to ever-increasing class sizes, therefore making education for the children of the country even more difficult and further increasing the pressure on existing teachers’ stress levels, which eventually leads to them leaving the education profession.

She failed to state where an unidentified £600 million of new cuts from the Department of Education would come from.

She is also planning to take £420 million away from the Education Capital Budget for building and repairs, mostly from what is known as the “healthy pupils” fund for sports facilities etc.

So much for “healthy pupils” as far as the Tories are concerned.

The Tories’ misguided philosophy for education is totally wrong and they will pay the price very soon with electoral defeat.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York