Labour’s school plans will cost taxpayer more

Responding to a consultation launched by the Labour Welsh Government into changing the tax arrangements for Welsh independent schools, Tom Giffard MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Minister, said:

“Labour’s focus on private schools is a bias that will ultimately cost the taxpayer in the long run.

“With parents pulling their children out of private schools and placing them into an already overwhelmed state school system, not only will it cost the taxpayer more, it will increase class sizes and heap more pressure on the hard-working teaching staff.

“Labour’s short-sighted thinking reflects their wider ineptitude with the economy, the Welsh Conservatives will always prioritise our children’s education and appropriately fund our schools.”