New Clause 8 - Abolition of School Organisation Committee
Education Bill [Lords]
4:15 pm
Mr John Pugh (Education Spokesperson, Education & Skills; Southport, Liberal Democrat)
I am fairly unenthusiastic about school organisation committees and adjudicators, but I am also fairly unenthusiastic about educational anarchy. Opening schools willy-nilly strikes me as not being the most prudent use of public resources. None the less, it is fair to say that, were the new clause to be passed, some hurried consequential amendments would have to be made in many of the clauses that we dealt with earlier. Since that work has not been done, I throw the ball back into the Minister’s court to respond.