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Education Bill

Asked for further timings on the Education Bill, the PMOS said that it would be published in February, and would be put to the vote sometime in March.

Asked if the Prime Minister was involved in various discussions with Ministers about the content of the Bill, the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister had been throughout, and would be in the future. We did not give a running commentary on close discussions.

Asked was there any concern about the publicly expressed concerns given by people like Estelle Morris, Nick Raynsford, or Neil Kinnock about some of the aspects of the Bill that it would be more difficult for Ruth Kelly to drive through, given the recent controversy, the PMOS said people had set out their views. Last week’s NAO report had clearly illustrated the progress being made in Education, but it also illustrated why the status quo was not an option. We had to learn from what had worked in the past, and to keep developing it. What worked was if schools had an ethos which was theirs, and theirs to develop.

Equally, there was the freedom to make the kind of decisions that were necessary to develop schools and for good schools to help failing schools. What was also important was that we moved forward on the discipline front, with the measures that were contained in the Bill too. There were all sorts of reasons why we believed that this Bill helped forward the momentum. The PMOS said that the underlying message from last week was that the status quo was not an option.

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