Business of the House Debate

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Business of the House

Nicholas Dakin Excerpts
Thursday 8th September 2011

(13 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Young of Cookham Portrait Sir George Young
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I understand the hon. Lady’s concern and I am grateful to her for raising it. I shall ask the Foreign Secretary to write to her to respond to her question to see whether we can make some progress on this important issue.

Nicholas Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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In July, an answer to a written question made it very clear that officials in the Department for Education should not use Hotmail addresses to contact schools that were going for academy status. However, a press report last month said that that was happening. May we have a statement on what is actually going on?

Lord Young of Cookham Portrait Sir George Young
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There will be an opportunity on Monday 17 October, but that seems a little far away, so I will ask the Secretary of State for Education to write to the hon. Gentleman to clarify that matter.