Schools: Free Schools Debate

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Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

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Wednesday 14th May 2014

(10 years, 7 months ago)

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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I take note of the noble Lord’s point. I think it is very unlikely that my two noble friends to whom he referred would ever get prematurely overexcited. However, I note the point that he makes on timing.

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe Portrait Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab)
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The Minister said that if a free school fails the Government will take swift and decisive action. Can he tell the House what that would be?

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Noble Lords will know that we have closed one and a half free schools with a total of 200 pupils and we have created so far 150,000 new free school places, and so this needs to be seen in that context. We have also brought other management into one particular free school.

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