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Testing and Assessment

As my right hon. Friend may remember, the Children, Schools and Families Committee produced its report on testing and assessment a year ago next week. I congratulate him on having listened to the Committee's recommendations and to the expert group that he set up. I welcome much of what he said today, as will many members of my Committee. May I push the Secretary of State on the issue of report cards? He knows that the national curriculum, public and educational accountability, and the method of testing all hang together. I hope that he will look very soon at our recent report on the national curriculum in the same positive way as he has looked at testing and assessment. There is one particular concern about report cards— ...Why is it that in this House— ...The Chair is wrong.