Education Multiple levels of governmentCost not yet known
Publish the real household cost of "free" schooling
The problem
Nominally free education still carries uniform, transport, materials and private tuition costs that push families into debt.
Why it matters
Policy debates use the word free while families experience a bill. Naming the real number changes the debate.
Proposed solution
An annual household-cost survey of schooling, published with full methodology and sample size.
How it would be implemented
Volunteer-administered survey in covered constituencies, published as party research and explicitly labelled as such.
Risks, and what we would do about them
Risk
Small or unrepresentative samples presented as national fact.
Mitigation
Label every figure as a party estimate with its sample size. Never present it as official statistics.