Lucy Powell: “the money saved by scrapping the scheme was not an insignificant amount and would be reprioritised and redistributed in…”

We want young people to have that deeper understanding in literacy and numeracy but across a range of subjects.

And, you know, I want to make sure that we look at this so that it’s fair for students.

I’m not here to worry about private schools. I’m here to worry about state schools.

I think I've called it in the past egregious and I'm not going to change my opinion on that just because I'm now the secretary of state.