Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 October 2009.
I am grateful to the Minister, but I did not actually ask whether she was going to end statementing; I simply asked what the Government's plans were, given that the Secretary of State had indicated in his response to the media coverage of Brian Lamb's inquiry that they were going to look at taking statementing out of the hands of local authorities because a lot of parents think there is a conflict of interests there. I simply wanted the Minister to set out what specific steps the Government are going to take to put the Secretary of State's pledge into action, and I ask her to do so now.