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Academies Bill [Lords]

I am afraid that I must disagree with the hon. Lady. I go into many schools, and one head will say, ““I can't do my job; I can't cope; I can't do anything, because of the amount of bureaucracy, red tape and all that,”” yet in an almost exactly similar school, with a good leadership, the head will say, ““Bureaucracy, red tape. We skip over that. We run the school for the children. And that all comes later, and we deal with it.”” I am always suspicious, because I guarantee that the House will spend time over the next years introducing all sort of things—health and safety, child protection and child safety measures, and so on—and that we will end up with more bureaucracy in schools. We will gladly do both things at the same time.