Part of Orders of the Day — School Standards and Framework Bill – in the House of Commons at 4:30 pm on 11 March 1998.
It was a Freudian slip. The hon. Gentleman's day will come. I listened carefully to what the hon. Gentleman said. Why, during the lifetime of the last Conservative Government, were more than 450 small rural primary schools closed? That was unprecedented. More were closed under the previous Government than under any Government since the war. Is there a response to that?