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Children, Schools and Families

My Lords, the noble Lord, as ever, makes helpful suggestions. We shall consider the issue of an overseas member. We study overseas practice carefully and, as the noble Lord said, I have been looking particularly at the educational progress of Pacific Rim countries recently to see what we can learn from them. I should correct one point that the noble Lord made. When I said in the Statement that ““I”” would be chairing the council along with the Prime Minister, I was repeating a Statement made by my right honourable friend. For greater accuracy, he will be chairing the council and I will be one of his minions in attendance.