Member

The data will be more telling in a year’s time. We offered the Secretary of State a discretionary power to reverse this policy; they refused it. Despite the combined effect of this tax with the appalling imposition of VAT and the devasting rise in employers’ national insurance contributions, I hope that parental choice remains, and I hope that children do not have their educational years disrupted by this Government—but I am concerned about the likely impacts of this tax on some children’s education.