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Education and Inspections Bill

Does the hon. Gentleman understand that those of us who represent inner London constituencies have seen enormous improvements in the past five years in our local secondary schools? Our concern about the Bill is that it will take away the most able children, who will be able to get out to the suburban schools, which have the space and the money to expand, and we will return to a situation where the inner London comprehensives are seen as second best and school of last resort for too many parents. We want a continuation of the excellent levels of funding that we are getting, which have so dramatically improved our inner-city comprehensives. We want comprehensive schools.