I find it extraordinary that the hon. Gentleman accuses those on our Front Bench of creating a Primary Places Crisis when it was the Labour Government who failed to invest in new primary school buildings and places, and who predicated all the capital budget for education towards the secondary sector.

Why has the free school programme been so heavily weighted to secondary places during a time of national Crisis in Primary Places?

Extraordinarily, that has left some local authorities in a position where they want to build a new school to manage a Primary Places Crisis, only to be told that the Department for Education will allow a new school to be built only if it is a free school and only to find out that nobody wants to build a free school in that area.

Many Conservative Members will wish to praise what he did in the previous Parliament in reforming education, so that more and more children have the opportunity to attend good schools, and the support he gave to many schools through extra money that recognised the Primary Places Crisis that we had in London.