Matthew Offord
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(5 years, 9 months ago)
Commons ChamberSocial mobility is a top priority right across the Department, from the early years at school to supporting disadvantaged students into university and improving technical education.
These are big topics and, indeed, stubborn statistics that take quite some time to move. As anybody who has compared the 1970 cohort with the 1958 cohort will attest, it is a problem that goes back through multiple Governments, but we need to keep working on it. The most recent OECD statistics show a more encouraging picture than there was previously thought to be. [Interruption.]