Department for Education: BSF was ‘wasteful and bureaucratic’

A spokesman for the Department for Education comments on concern over the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme:

“We understand people’s disappointment but the BSF programme was wasteful, needlessly bureaucratic and seriously behind schedule. It would have been inexcusable to have continued with the programme.

“Ministers have been clear that the end of BSF is not the end of school rebuilding. That is why the government has launched a comprehensive review of all capital spending in schools.”