Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Hugh Bayley Excerpts
Monday 6th January 2014

(11 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that school and its students.

Hugh Bayley Portrait Hugh Bayley (York Central) (Lab)
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T8. When does the Secretary of State expect that builders will start on site rebuilding Carr infant school in York, which he wrote to tell me about last June? The school asks whether it will now get a dining room big enough for all 320 pupils who will become eligible for free school meals under the Deputy Prime Minister’s proposal.

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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A feasibility study is being undertaken, and building work should commence within 12 months. I should say that thanks to the reforms introduced in our free schools programme, schools are being built more cheaply and faster than ever before under this Government.