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Jeremy Purvis is entitled to have his concerns and we should do our best to accommodate the fact that he advanced them at committee, but that should not influence the committee's decision on the LCM.
At that stage, organisations such as ours will come back with much clearer information. We have done our best to give you our sense of the financial memorandum, but it has been difficult.
We could do that in writing and then put it on in our agenda in two or three weeks' time. I was going to suggest that the best way forward might be to ask the clerks to prepare a paper for us, which would outline various options that would enable us to consider the various issues to do with class sizes and how and when best to pursue some of them.
That has disappointed many people. To the best of my knowledge, the review will begin this Friday 23 November, but its recommendations will not be made public until April 2008.