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Neil O'Brien

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Monday 3rd March 2025

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Catherine McKinnell Portrait Catherine McKinnell
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Where the adjudicator upholds an objection to the published admission number, I cannot foresee a circumstance where that might be the case—

Neil O'Brien Portrait Neil O’Brien
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I can see that very easily.

Catherine McKinnell Portrait Catherine McKinnell
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It will very much depend on the local context. Obviously, it will be for the adjudicator as an independent professional to take that decision for maintained schools. To be clear, for academies it will be for the Secretary of State to end a funding agreement, and for maintained schools it will be for the local authority to determine.

[Official Report, Children's Wellbeing and Schools Public Bill Committee, 6 February 2025; c. 430.]

Written correction submitted by the Minister for School Standards, the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell):

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