UK school building programmes have been “systematically underfunded” by this Government, Barry told Salma El-Wardany on BBC Radio London on the 4th of September 2023.
Barry appeared on the show to discuss the aerated concrete (or RAAC) crisis, which has seen several schools closing buildings at risk of collapse, with many more potentially under threat.
Over the “past 13 years, this Government has skimped, tried to penny-pinch on the things that are most important in life” and now we are feeling the consequences, argued Barry.