Education Policy

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 18 October 2010.

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Photo of Michael Gove Michael Gove The Secretary of State for Education 3:32, 18 October 2010

I am grateful for my hon. Friend's point. It is crucial that we ensure that disadvantaged children across the country receive the money that they need. One of the inefficiencies in schools funding under the previous Government was that disadvantaged children, particularly those in rural areas, often did not receive the support that they needed to achieve their full potential. We want to ensure that poverty knows no boundaries, and that the ways in which we will tackle it know no boundaries either.