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MPs confused over NEG funding in Muslim schools row

Conservative MPs have been forced to back down in the row over two independent Muslim nursery and primary schools accused of links to a radical Islamic group, after it emerged that they had confused nursery education funding of more than 100,000 with Government money to prevent violent extremism.

However, the London Borough of Haringey has suspended free entitlementfunding for the school in Tottenham until it receives proof that alllinks with the Hizb ut-Tahrir group have been severed.

Haringey is one of the pathfinder local authorities for the extension ofthe nursery education grant to 15 hours.

During a Prime Minister's Questions session last week, Tory leader DavidCameron claimed that both schools, which are run by the IslamicShakhsiyah Foundation, had received 113,000 of Government money,some of which came from a pathfinder scheme, Preventing ViolentExtremism.

It later transpired that Mr Cameron had confused the name of the schemewith the pathfinder funding for the free entitlement.

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