Creative Sector: Educational Provision Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Creative Sector: Educational Provision

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd July 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I will go away and look at this further, but I repeat that the statistics are encouraging.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, I endorse very strongly what my noble friend Lord Baker of Dorking said. Will the Minister agree that in the 21st century no country can really claim to call itself civilised unless every pupil leaves school with a knowledge of music, the arts, and the history of the country?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I entirely agree with my noble friend.