Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Gregor Poynton

Monday 28th April 2025 Commons Chamber

[Gregor Poynton (Livingston) (Lab)]

T2. The exam season is well under way in Scotland, and I think the whole House will join me in wishing pupils in Livingston and across Scotland luck over the coming weeks, and in thanking teachers for preparing during the academic year. Closing the attainment gap between the richest and poorest pupils in Scotland was the SNP Government’s “defining mission”, but the latest statistics show that it is increasing year on year, and 1,351 pupils are leaving Scottish schools without any qualifications at all—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We have other Members to get in as well. I call the Secretary of State.