New Clause 4 — Education of children with special educational needs in mainstream schools

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 May 2006.

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Photo of John Hayes John Hayes Shadow Minister (14-19 Reform and Apprenticeships) 2:30, 24 May 2006

I thank the hon. Gentleman and I take his point, but will he tell us why in 2001 the Government dropped the provision in the Education Act 1996 that special education should be related to the learning difficulty of the child? Why did they drop the appropriateness provision in that Act?