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The amount of work that the petitioners put into producing the petitions and coming to speak to the committee is a credit to them. We should actively encourage that.
The Bill will add:
a legal right for pupils to express their views and have their wishes followed, where a parent has exercised their right to withdraw a pupil.
A proposal that included a 25 per cent target was put forward yesterday, which represents substantial progress, and 26 out of the 27 countries were prepared to support it.