Education Funding

Robert Flello Excerpts
Monday 5th July 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I entirely agree. It is irresponsible, cynical and poor politics. It was one of the terrible things about the last Government that they raised hopes before the last election knowing that they would not be able to honour them.

Robert Flello Portrait Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State will know that I asked him in education questions a few weeks ago about Stoke-on-Trent. My city was in the unique circumstances of being in phase 1 of the process. He said that he would look at the position sympathetically, so can he now give the people of the area, who are anxiously awaiting this decision, a positive answer?