Written evidence to be reported to the House
Education and Skills Bill
12:00 pm
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (PPS (Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury), HM Treasury; Portsmouth North, Labour)
When Stephen Williams said just now that you seemed to be saying that you were opposed to compulsion and in favour of entitlements, you did not respond. Looking at your evidence, I thought that that was a little simplistic. Would you like to expand on that point? If all the caveats that you have put into paragraph 1.4 were there, would you not accept that, as was told to us in somebody else’s evidence, the compulsory element could galvanise all those elements into place? Would you be more in favour of a compulsory approach if all those caveats were in place acting as a force to bring in those additional support services?