Education and Skills Bill

I thank the Minister for his reply. If he would like the uptake of home-school agreements to be higher, he has only to accept our amendment. I am not surprised by what he said, and I rather think that he will not accept the amendment. There is a slight irony, that here is something that the Government could compel parents to do, which might make an enormous difference, so that we do not have to have compulsion when children get to age 17 and 18—