Building Schools for the Future

Debate between Lord Hill of Oareford and Lord Grabiner

Monday 14th February 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Hill of Oareford]

I think that that is an extremely fair and probably more concise way of summarising the position than I was able to manage.

[Lord Grabiner]

I have two points for the Minister. First, is he telling the House that a decision has been taken not to appeal against that judgment? I could not tell that from the Statement. Secondly, some play is made in the Statement of the fact that no compensation order was made by the learned judge. My understanding is that that issue was not even before him, so it is entirely unsurprising that no such order was made. Can the Minister confirm whether that is the position?

[Lord Hill of Oareford]

I can certainly confirm that the department accepts the judge’s ruling. On the second point, I will have to check whether that was at issue.