Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Gove and Guy Opperman
Tuesday 8th December 2015

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. You are quite right that there were more questions in that sally than in a multiple-choice maths GCSE paper.

Guy Opperman Portrait Guy Opperman (Hexham) (Con)
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The hon. Gentleman still wouldn’t know the answers.

Lord Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Yes; I hesitate to say what the mark would be.

We moved as expeditiously as possible to suspend the charge. The best legal advice available to the Department suggested that this was the most effective way of relieving magistrates of the obligation to impose it.