Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Esther McVey and Michael Shanks

Thursday 23rd November 2023 Commons Chamber

[Esther McVey]

It does not surprise me that those on the Labour Benches attack private schools, which lots of parents want to send their children to. For them, that is common sense. For them, that is freedom of choice, which I stand by. Of course, should they close private schools down, the public sector would have to find billions more to fund it: again, not value for money—something that I am here to deliver—from Labour.

[Michael Shanks (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (Lab)]

7. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of compliance with the ministerial code.