Academies (Funding) Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Academies (Funding)

Nicholas Dakin Excerpts
Thursday 16th June 2011

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Mr Gibb
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My hon. Friend is right. The Secretary of State has announced that we are taking urgent action to convert the 200 least-performing primary schools in this country to academy status, transforming those schools and giving the youngsters who attend them a significantly better start to their education, and I would have thought that that should be the issue to be raised today.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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Given the Department’s serial bungling, can the Minister tell us how much it has spent on defending legal challenges in the past year?

Nick Gibb Portrait Mr Gibb
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These issues are faced by all Governments and all Departments—[Hon. Members: “How much?”] I do not have those figures to hand, but if I am able to get them, I will write to the hon. Gentleman.