Urgent Question on Al-Madinah free school
17 October 2013 (updated on 17 October 2013)
Minister of State for Education, David Laws, responded to an Urgent Question by Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Tristram Hunt, on the Government's response to the failings of the Al-Madinah free school, revealed in the Ofsted inspection report, on Thursday 17 October 2013.
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