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Liam Byrne Excerpts
Monday 21st July 2014

(10 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liam Byrne Portrait Mr Liam Byrne (Birmingham, Hodge Hill) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State will know that I have worked for five months to uncover problems at Park View school. The leader of Birmingham city council has apologised for the city’s role in the historic failures. Will she apologise to my constituents for what Peter Clarke has called the “benign neglect” of Park View since it became an academy two years ago, and will she respond positively to my letter of last week, which called for a new joint director of school standards in Birmingham so that this never happens again?

Baroness Morgan of Cotes Portrait Nicky Morgan
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The right hon. Gentleman will have heard my earlier answers in which I said that these matters will be discussed more fully tomorrow on publication of the Clarke report. I pay tribute to the work that the right hon. Gentleman has done. I have his letter and will respond to it.