Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mary Macleod and David Laws

Monday 21st July 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Laws]

We always pay due regard to the views of individual schools and governing bodies, but it is vital that when we academise schools that have been failing in the past, the Department discharges its responsibility to select the sponsor which we believe will be most effective.

[Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth) (Con)]

5. What recent assessment she has made of the performance of free schools; and if she will make a statement.