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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 30 November 2009.

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Photo of Ed Vaizey Ed Vaizey Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) 2:30, 30 November 2009

I hope that I can avoid detention and set a good example with this question. Will the Secretary of State help me with a reply to the chair of the governors of one of my local schools? On hearing about the Government's proposal for a legal right to a good education, they wrote that schools are heartily sick of receiving one missive after another missive after another, that such a legal right would add to costs and additional time commitment, and that that kind of thinking was out of touch and completely counter to what was needed. Does the Secretary of State share the sentiments of the chair of governors?

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