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Schools to be left in funding limbo until new government formed

NUT had called for information to be released on funding and grammar schools before election to inform public debateSchools will be left in limbo over their future funding until a new government takes office, it has emerged.Rules surrounding local and general elections mean that the government will not be able to publish its response to its consultation on introducing a new national funding formula this side of the general election.NUT general secretary Kevin Courtney had today called for ministers to publish summaries of the responses to the consultation ahead of the election to inform the debate.Both issues are likely to figure in the campaign ahead of the ballot on June 8.However, rules governing the ‘purdah’ period limit the work of civil servants during local and general election campaigns.A Department for Education spokesperson said: “Local election purdah began on 13 April and the well-established restrictions on government business during that period mean that we are unable to publish responses to any consultations that could affect those elections. Subsequent to that national election purdah will be in place.”They said the funding consultation, as well as the consultation on creating new grammar schools, both fell into this category.