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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 3:44 pm on 6 January 2014.

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Photo of Owen Paterson Owen Paterson The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 3:44, 6 January 2014

The statement of principles, which was the ad hoc arrangement left by the previous Government, was always going to end on 30 June last year, and I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman’s colleagues had done very little to prepare the ground for a replacement. After very detailed negotiation with the ABI, we have come to an agreement on a new programme. The relevant measure is going through the House as we speak, and he will have an opportunity to comment on it in the debate on the Water Bill later this afternoon.