Clause 2 — Payments under Academy agreements

Part of Bills Presented — Fixed-term Parliaments Bill – in the House of Commons at 5:30 pm on 22 July 2010.

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Photo of Ian Mearns Ian Mearns Labour, Gateshead 5:30, 22 July 2010

Having worked in the system and taken a number of cases to education appeals panels, I have often seen a situation in which council officers think they are doing the right thing by the system by refusing parents what they want, because they believe that other provision is nearly as good but less costly. Does the Chair of Education Committee accept that if parents want provision that costs tens of thousands of pounds a year, allowing that provision incurs an opportunity cost to the system and other children within it?