Rural Schools — [Mr Mike Weir in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 3:20 pm on 8 February 2012.

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Photo of Jamie Reed Jamie Reed Shadow Minister (Health) 3:20, 8 February 2012

There is a world of difference between allowing communities to flourish and determine their own future, and throwing areas of market failure further to the forces and whims of the marketplace. Does my hon. Friend agree that we are all struggling with the following point? We are all debating different notions of rurality, and we are not considering some things that she will be aware of—as this is writ large in her own constituency—which are issues and notions of peripherality? They are the big issues that are driving the problem.