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Lastly, whether it is the adoption of a report for national tutoring, a report on prisoners or a royal commission on SEN pupils, we often make the mistake in this place and indeed in other legislatures of seeing this as a sort of full stop—if this is passed and a commission is set up or a report produced then that is job done. A former leader of mine once described government, I think very aptly, as a never-ending relay race. We need to look at this issue not simply as a full stop; once that report is produced and completed, what is critical is its implementation, and that will require resources and commitment from the Government. I would therefore like to see, around these issues, not simply the steps taken of a drill-down focus on attainment but subsequent actions to ensure that whatever recommendations are made are brought into practice.