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Business of the House

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on surplus school places and the way in which Conservative county councils such as Kent seem arbitrarily and unfairly to be targeting schools in deprived and low-income areas? Such a debate would allow us to expose the reasons why Kent has suddenly singled out Dover and said that it wants to close down St. Radigund’s school, Melbourne school, South Deal school and St. Joseph’s school in Aylesham, against the wishes of people in those areas.