House debates Questions without Notice

Education Funding

Tuesday, 18 June 2013 House of Representatives

Christopher Pyne

Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training

2:28 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that, when asked yesterday about her $4.7 billion in cuts to education, she argued this question was based on false figures. I refer her to page 6-55 of last year's budget and to page 6-59 of this year's Budget Paper No. 1, which clearly show funding reductions of $1.15 billion, $0.2 billion, $1.3 billion and $2.05 billion, totalling a cut of $4.7 billion. Unless she is claiming the budget cannot be relied on, how does she reconcile her statement with—(Time expired)

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