Harriett Baldwin highlights the importance to jobs, the local economy and export earnings of private schools such as Malvern College and asks what ideology would put all that at risk by taxing education.
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) (Con)
Malvern College in my constituency employs hundreds of local people, supports the local economy, earns export earnings for our country, ensures that people around the world love the UK, and is a huge supporter of our local schools. What kind of destructive ideology would put all that at risk and make the UK the only country in the world to tax education?
The Secretary of State for Education (Gillian Keegan)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a dreadful policy and it will have exactly the opposite impact. It will probably actually cost money and mean children moving schools, and all because the Labour party just plays the politics of envy.