Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 2 November 2016.
I’d like to know on what basis the spokesperson for UKIP makes such a sweeping remark about the comparison relating to the achievement of our hard-working teachers and pupils in the state sector. I would reflect, Presiding Officer, on a conversation that I had just this summer with a parent celebrating the success of the GCSE results at the former John Beddoes High School—a school that had been put into special measures and now forms part of the Newtown collaboration—celebrating the fact that their GCSE results were better than those of the neighbouring private school in Lucton.