Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Alex Cunningham Excerpts
Monday 10th February 2014

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that parents and teachers need to work together in order to ensure very high standards of behaviour. It is often the case that what happens before children ever attend school—in the earliest years—matters. That is why the programme of work that the Government are undertaking, led by my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions and for Communities and Local Government to help troubled families is so important.

Alex Cunningham Portrait Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)
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Will the Secretary of State confirm his support for the ban on smoking in cars with children present?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Absolutely.