Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Julie Hilling Excerpts
Monday 27th February 2012

(12 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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That sounds like a model of the type of collaboration between local government, industry and schools that we would like to promote and that we are happy to see flourishing under the coalition Government.

Julie Hilling Portrait Julie Hilling (Bolton West) (Lab)
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Warm words and policy documents—and even Latin—are useless if they are not backed by action. Does the Minister consider that local authorities that have cut youth services completely are providing a sufficient service and, more important, what is he going to do about it?