Citing the example of prisons (both private and state-owned prisons have the same rates liability), Mr Barclay said that the more the Review had examined the public sector landscape, the more anomalous the situation of state and independent schools had seemed.ixLocal Government and Communities Committee, Official Report, 26 June, cols 31- 32
It may be helpful to add that very little evidence, if any, supporting section 10 did so on the basis of questioning the validity of, or the continuing need for, an independent schools sector.