Oral Answers to Questions

Guy Opperman Excerpts

Tuesday 8th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Michael Gove]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. You are quite right that there were more questions in that sally than in a multiple-choice maths GCSE paper.

[Guy Opperman (Hexham) (Con)]

The hon. Gentleman still wouldn’t know the answers.

[Michael Gove]

Yes; I hesitate to say what the mark would be.

We moved as expeditiously as possible to suspend the charge. The best legal advice available to the Department suggested that this was the most effective way of relieving magistrates of the obligation to impose it.