Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Geoffrey Robinson Excerpts
Monday 15th June 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Morgan of Cotes Portrait Nicky Morgan
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We are aware of the costs involved in the PFI agreements. In some schools, we are having to put walls back into schools so that there are individual classrooms. We are keeping that whole matter under careful review.

Geoffrey Robinson Portrait Mr Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West) (Lab)
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We have touched several times on failing academies. Will the Secretary of State give an undertaking that Grace Academy in Coventry should rigorously enforce and increase standards in the interests of pupils and of their parents?

Baroness Morgan of Cotes Portrait Nicky Morgan
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I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. I am not aware of the circumstances that surround that individual school, but he can rest assured that the Government’s determination to raise standards for all pupils extends as far as all schools in Coventry, too.