Clause 2 - Power to suspend statutory requirements etc.
[Part I]Education Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene precisely on cue. Does he believe that if the Government were in any sense joined-up, we would have seen the publication of the White Paper on local government reform during the Committee stage of a Bill with which it is inextricably bound, and in which the role of the local education authority is being considered? It should have been published before we commenced.