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Sutherland Inquiry

The Secretary of State is right to characterise this whole sorry episode as a complete failure that has let pupils down very badly. As the right hon. Gentleman is lending a great amount of weight to the recommendations in the report, will he look again at the EMA payments and the delays and consider whether a separate independent inquiry should be forthcoming in that regard? Recommendations might well flow from such an inquiry that he would want to take on board.