Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Gove and Alan Whitehead

Monday 29th October 2012 Commons Chamber

[Michael Gove]

I would be delighted to meet the hon. Gentleman.

[Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)]

T8. Bearing in mind that the Secretary of State has already said that the results of the GCSE fiasco this year were unfair, who would he advise the 137 pupils in my city who have had manifest injustice done to them as a result of the marking fiasco to put their faith in—him, to put the matter right, or the legal action against Ofqual?

[Michael Gove]

It is anyone’s right to pursue action through the courts if they believe that is the only way to secure a remedy, but the point that I would make, and have consistently made, and a point which was reinforced by the Chairman of the Select Committee, is that the design of those qualifications was flawed from the start, and it was not this Government who designed them.