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Business of the House

I welcome my hon. Friend's intervention, and we would be delighted to have such a debate, although it would probably have to take place in Backbench time. I welcome what Lord Adonis has just said:"““Neither I nor Tony Blair believed that academies should be restricted to areas with failing schools. We wanted all schools to be eligible for academy status, and we were enthusiastic about the idea of entirely new schools being established on the academy model, as in Michael Gove's Free Schools policy.””" So there is a growing consensus, and I hope that it might include Opposition Front Benchers at some point.