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In his morning interviews Nadhim Zahawi also answered questions relating to his job as education secretary. Here are the key points.
My pledge to your viewers and the country, as the prime minister pledged, is children will catch up by the end of this parliament.
I think it’s – obviously I’ve only been in department for two weeks – but I think it’s a combination of supply and making sure we’ve got supply, and then working with schools to see how many they need in each school. But we are ramping up through this month and next month.
I’m in the middle of a spending review negotiation with the Treasury and we’ll say more about this in a couple of weeks time when that spending review is completed …
There is a pay freeze at the moment. But I have a pay review body that looks at pay in the same way that the health service and the health Ssecretary has a pay review body that looks at pay.
I think [it’s] slightly unfair to sort of link [Coffey’s singing] with what we’re trying to do to help the most needy with that half a billion that we announced just as we were getting to party conference.