Schools: Pupil Premium

Baroness Walmsley Excerpts

Monday 3rd February 2014 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

The noble Baroness is absolutely right. Good practice, of which there is a lot available, should be shared. We are encouraging, at every turn, all schools to do what good schools do. School-to-school support is the best way of improving performance.

[Baroness Walmsley (LD)]

My Lords, since my noble friend clearly believes, as I do, that early intervention is a very good strategy, will he go further and agree with the Liberal Democrat policy of putting pupil premium into the early years sector?

[Lord Nash]

Funding is tight, as my noble friend will know, and we have no plans to do that in the near term.