Mr Colin Pickthall
Former Labour MP for West Lancashire
Former Labour MP for West Lancashire
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to ensure that the involvement of parents in children's centres builds on the experience of parents' involvement in Sure Start.
Does the hon. Lady suspect that, if the new clause were included in the Bill and the Act, as it will eventually become, when the Secretary of State comes each year to lay before Parliament his or her report, he or she will send a circular to all schools and ask them to report in detail on the administrative burdens that they face and how they would like to see them reduced?
I want to add to what the hon. Member for Southport, my next-door neighbour, has said. The appeals panels make some potty decisions from time to time, and that is almost inevitable, but their one advantage is that they can see across an area the different thresholds for exclusion that schools have. I have seven large secondary schools in my constituency. They are all very good and I have no...
Former Labour MP for West Lancashire
Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 11 April 2005 — did not stand for re-election
Last updated: 11 Apr 2005.
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