If this bill has some steps that improve the quality of education, however modest, we would still back it.
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More David Willetts on Wikipedia.What I want her to do is answer the basic factual questions then in the light of that we can review the position she's in.
Promising to act urgently in 2004, announcing a new system 20 months later and finally having it up and running in 2010 is just not good enough and will not calm the fears of many parents.
This is a timid step in the right direction. This bill would have been better if it had been bolder.
The prime minister will feel uncomfortable about the sound of daggers being sharpened around him. We in this party are happy to praise the Education Bill, not to bury it.
Now the secretary of state comes to the house to say that she will legislate but she hasn't said she will legislate for a single list.
We think that is a good practical way of raising the quality of education.
Either Ruth Kelly does know how many sex offenders have been cleared to work in our schools, in which case she should tell anxious parents now. Or she does not know, in which case her department is shockingly incompetent.
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