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Schools White Paper

Asked if the Prime Minister were disappointed that Lord Kinnock planned to come out against the white paper tomorrow, the PMOS said that Lord Kinnock would do what Lord Kinnock did. It was best for people not to comment or speculate on what someone might say, but rather comment on what they had said. People should wait and see. To respond in general terms about the education white paper, last week’s NAO report set out precisely why the status quo was not an option. There were great improvements but the process was far from complete.

Therefore we had to build on what had worked in the past five years and that meant continuing the process of reform. This was the basis on which the white paper was built. Along with improvements in areas such as discipline. The Prime Minister was completely committed to arguing that case. Put to the PMOS that the league tables due to be published tonight would be bad for City Academies, the PMOS said first of all that he had not seen the tables, but people should bear at the back of their minds that city academies were specifically set up in deprived areas and as such the important thing was whether they were improving on the performance from before the academy was established.

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