Academies Bill [Lords]

Debate between Pat Glass and Martin Caton

Thursday 22nd July 2010 Commons Chamber

[Pat Glass]

I am sure that I am not the only person in the House who worked in education during the time of the previous Tory Government. I remember what it was like in those school buildings, where I was putting out buckets in the hall when it rained and excluding children from the hall because it was dangerous. I said that BSF is not about a capital building programme—it is a transformation programme. Our school buildings say what we think about our young people. To have children in office blocks, disused buildings and old schools—

[The Temporary Chairman (Martin Caton)]

Order. I have been indulgent, but interventions should be a lot shorter than that.