Gillian Keagan says Essex County Council 'has done an amazing job'.
Vicky Ford, the Conservative MP for Chelmsford, warned MPs to think about the language they use when talking about RAAC so as not to frighten children.Ms Keegan said she would set up a special working party with Essex MPs given the number of cases in the county.
Stephen Metcalfe, the Conservative MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, asked for assurances that schools would have any additional costs reimbursed "so that budgetary concerns will not be a barrier to delivering face-to-face education that our children so richly deserve?".Media caption,Mark Francois, the Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, told Ms Keegan that "there are differences between what I have been told by her department and the ground truth".
He said Hockley Primary was promised before the end of last term that it would get eight mobile classrooms ready to go this week.The education secretary said soft ground was proving a problem. RAAC was used in public buildings between the 1960s and 1980s and has an expected lifespan of 30 years. The Department for Education said it had been aware of problems with RAAC since 1994 and advised schools in 2018 to implement "adequate contingencies".
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