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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 2 March 2015.

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Photo of Tristram Hunt Tristram Hunt Shadow Secretary of State for Education 2:30, 2 March 2015

In 2010 the Conservative party manifesto promised to

“close the attainment gap between the richest and poorest”,

so can the Secretary of State tell the House whether, over the past two years, since the roll-out of coalition policy, the attainment gap between pupils on free school meals and their better-off classmates has narrowed or widened?

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