Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

John Cryer Excerpts
Monday 16th January 2012

(12 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Mr Gibb
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My hon. Friend raises an important point. We want to raise the bar for entrants into the teaching profession, which is why we are limiting the number of retakes for those tests, which will be taken before trainees start their course, not at the end.

John Cryer Portrait John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
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Following the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams), would the Secretary of State like to congratulate the Holocaust Educational Trust, which works tirelessly visiting schools and educating students in the horrors of the genocide of the second world war?