MP fighting for Tiverton High School rebuild funding

Rachel Gilmour pushing the Education Secretary

The Liberal Demorcrat MP for Tiverton and Minehead, Rachel Gilmour, has been fighting for investment to improve the state of Tiverton High School after the Chancellor’s Budget announcement.

In the Budget, it was confirmed that there would be a £1.4 billion national investment into a national School Rebuilding Programme, and a separate £2.3 billion uplift to the Core Schools Budget.

Tiverton High School was built on a floodplain over 60 years ago, and the Environment Agency reports have scored it as a “risk to life” because of flooding. The school is also said to have asbestos present across various buildings and with a current provision of 1,300 not meeting the required capacity of 1,800 pupils.

Following the Budget speech Rachel Gilmour MP has written to the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, pleading for Tiverton High School to be included in the 518-school Rebuilding Programme. This letter follows up on prior contact with the Secretary of State.

Rachel Gilmour MP on School’s Rebuilding Programme:

"I am urgently requesting much-needed attention for Tiverton High School and for it to be placed at the top of the priority list for the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme. The programme received an additional £1.4 billion to address the needs of 518 schools currently in poor condition.

Tiverton High School must be a priority for this funding, and I am working hard in Parliament to make this happen.