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Sutherland Inquiry

It is certainly true that faith among teachers, parents and families in national curriculum testing has been badly hit by what has happened. Further to what my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) said, it is hard to conclude that the procurement procedure was sound, when the reputation and track record of ETS and the capacity of its staff were not flagged up. The dogs that did not bark seem to have been the OGC and its gateway reviews. That body had similarly lamentable failures with the Rural Payments Agency saga some time ago, but another problem has to do with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Will the Secretary of State say whether there exists in the public domain copies of the brief given to PricewaterhouseCoopers and of the report that was received from the company—no doubt at some great cost that we shall never know?