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One point on this topic that home-educating parents always make to me is that the public purse is saving £7,000 per home-educated child. If you multiply that by 100,000 or so, you get around £750 million—in other words, at least £5 million per authority. The total contribution that this amendment would ask for would be of the order of £2 million or £3 million across the country. Therefore, financially, this is peanuts.