Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 January 2015.
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government)
2:30,
19 January 2015
And mine, too.
As I am sure the Secretary of State is aware, The Durham free school got a notice to improve from the Education Funding Agency before Christmas, and today it was put into special measures. However, it is extremely difficult for me or anyone else to get information from the Education Funding Agency, so will she intervene to ensure that all information about this school, and the reasons why it has failed and is so badly managed, is put into the public domain?
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