From the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser: (Dominic Raab MP talking to the Education Select Committee in February): 'When we came to look at finding a site, the EFA (Education Funding Agency) identified a site in collaboration with a developer, and the quid pro quo was 500 new homes, which struck many – and it is still going through the process – as immediately eating up the demand that was otherwise going to be plugged.
'What analysis do you do in that kind of scenario of how the extra supply is going to be offset by, for example, a sponsoring developer who is going to create more demand? It struck us that no analysis of that had taken place.'
According to the paper Ms Watts said looking into the effect of a sponsoring developer would be 'part of the consideration in trying to identify what I described as need.'
Mr Raab said: 'But it makes no sense locally to build a new school coupled with a housing development, where all or most of the new places would be inundated by new demand.
'The Education Funding Agency says it conducts estimates of the extra school places required for such development. Yet when I've asked for these estimates they have not been forthcoming.'
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