5. Motion to annul the School Performance and Absence Targets (Wales) (Amendments) Regulations 2019

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:52 pm on 10 July 2019.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 3:52, 10 July 2019

It's a perfectly good answer, Siân. 'We are AMs, not detectives,' I suppose would be my response to that, but it's not a reason for not having more AMs, incidentally.

Mark Reckless—school performance and how to judge it. Actually, I think this is worthy, perhaps, of a full debate at some point. I'd be very happy for the leader of the Brexit Party to table that. My thinking at the moment is that something has to change, and I'm more than happy to give the Minister's new look a chance to see how it works. It may be that they'll be fantastic and we'll have a really good idea about school performance, or they may not work. We need to give them a chance, and we need to have the opportunity to see if they do work. I hope they do, obviously, for the sake of our children and our teachers and staff. The Welsh Conservative jury is out on that at the moment, but we've got to give it a fair chance. So, thank you to everyone who took part today.