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Sure Start Children's Centres

May I help my hon. Friend, because he has just taken an intervention from the Chairman of the current Select Committee? I have read the Government's response to our original response and it states:"““We are aware that Durham University published a report recently which suggested that Government investment in Sure Start had not delivered improvements in early language and numeracy development. We do not share that view—the 2010 Foundation Stage Profile results showed that the proportion of young children achieving a good level of development had increased by 4 percentage points compared to 2009””." We must therefore balance what the Government actually said against what some people think they said.