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be very happy if Merseyrail took control of their tracks. It has been

a long possibility to create that out now it is not.

Thank you. Order. Urgent question. Mr Clive Betts.

Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Casey in producing

a rate informative report. Order. He should as kids urgent

question and then I will give him an opportunity to expand on it. --

asked. Can I ask his initial observations

on the report? The Secretary of State.

Thank you. Can I thank the honourable gentleman for this

opportunity. In July 2015 the Government asked Casey to conduct a

review. A report was published yesterday. Let me take this

opportunity once again to thank her for her thorough and diligent work

over the past 18 months. Many of her findings ring true to me personally.

I have seen the enormous contribution that immigrants make to

British life, all without giving up the unique cultural identities. I

have also seen the other side of the equation. For too long, too many

people in this country have been living parallel lives, refusing to

integrate and failing to embrace the shared values that make Britain

great. For too long, too many politicians in this company to that

country have refused to deal with the problem. The art beard of being

called a racist. -- they art beard. I will not allow this to continue.

We have a moral responsibility to deal with this situation and the

report is a crucial step in that process. I am studying her findings

very closely. It touches on the work of a number of Government

departments and I will be discussing it with colleagues more widely. In

the spring we will come back to this house with the plans to tackle these

issues so we can continue building a country that works for everyone.

I had the pleasure of hosting Louise Casey on a visit to Sheffield, where

she identified the scale and the speed of Slovakian Roma migration to

the city. She identified in Sheffield, very often those

communities lived side-by-side with very little interaction, let alone

any integration. We'll be Secretary of State indicate his response to

the very detailed recommendations of the report, particularly a key

recommendation of the creation of the new programme to improve

community cohesion with area -based plans and projects? Does he

recognise this will lead targeted funds, rather like impact funds the

Government abolished? Does the Secretary of State agreed that

speaking English is key to integration? Will he agreed to

reverse the cuts that have been made to the funds available for courses

teaching English as a second language? Does the Secretary of

State have a view on the recommendation is to promote British

values in all communities, especially those values of tolerance

and respect for others and with support equality on grounds of sex,

sexuality, race and religion? Given that many of the recommendations are

challenging, some may be controversial, will you have a

programme to consult with elected councils and the different community

is in those areas most impacted by the recommendations? Will be

Secretary of State have discussions with Government colleagues come back

to the House without plan and may be coming to the select committee to

discuss it as well? First of all, can I thank the

honourable gentleman for his warm words and has welcomed for the

report. I know this is an issue he has taken an interest in many years

and I also look forward to speaking to him as the chairman of the select

committee. He will know this is an independent report, it is not a

statement of Government policy. The Government will want to take the

right amount of time to look at each of the findings of the report and

certainly the recommendations that Dame Louise has made. He has asked

about a number of the recommendations and let me just

respond without prejudging our response in spring next year to the

report to some of those. He asked about the area -based... The idea of

having a more placed based view on this. I think taking local

circumstances is common sense, something that the Government

already does with its integration cohesion programmes. I would like to

see how we can do that and make more of that. He asked about making

resources available. Of course, any recommendation that the Government

accepts will make sure they are suitably resourced. The honourable

gentleman also asked about the importance of English. That is one

of the central recommendations of the report, making sure every

community in Britain can speak English. I remember when I was about

eight or nine years old, going with my mother because she had to visit

the doctor and acting as the interpretative for that. Many years

later she learned English and speaks very well and it has transformed her

life. I think not just for her, but it is great news for British society

when more and more people speak English. I know from personal

experience the difference that can make. That is why I am pleased the

Government does spend more than I think ?100 million per year in

helping people learn English, a foreign language for them. We have

to see what more we can do. He has also asked about promoting British

values. Of course he is right to stress that. The report touches on

that in a number of areas. We talked about the importance of tolerance

and respect. I'm sure he will agree that when it comes to those,

certainly respect, it works both ways. It is respect for all

communities of each other and immigrant communities, of the

dominant Christian culture in this country, which is sometimes lacking.

We have got to make sure that we are promoting British values and every

sensible way that we can and we will be looking at the report closely and

reporting back in the spring on its findings.

I welcome the review. It echoes a number of the findings in the recent

women and equality select committee on the challenges that many Muslim

people face, getting work in this country. In her report she sets out

that women in some communities face a double barrier of gender and

religion, preventing them from accessing even basic rights as

British residents. How is the Secretary of State ensuring that

every person in this country is afforded the protection of the

equality act and also their rights under the law of this country?

My right honourable friend is right to raise this issue. She is also

someone in this house to speaks with great experience and has done a lot

to promote equality in this country with her work as a minister and on

the backbenches. She talks about the issue of... The double barriers

faced by some women. The report talks about the challenges of Muslim

women. I think there is more that needs to be done there, not just

directly by Government, but also it is a challenge to news and

communities and some Muslim men about how they treat Muslim women

and I think these fines are very important and it should take them

seriously and find what more we can do.

I thank the chair of the select committee preparing this important

question. For too long as the country we have ignored these

complex issues for fear of being seen as racist. Sadly, this approach

has left a vacuum that has been exploited by those who exist to

promote hatred. It is now time we recognise the problems and

opportunities highlighted in the case report and address these in a

realistic and mature way. One of the issues that was highlighted by the

chair of the select committee is that speaking English. One of the

most concerning areas of the report is that how women in some

communities are denied equal rights and opportunities. We are constantly

are urging people who suffer sexual abuse, violence, to speak out. You

cannot speak out if you cannot speak English. If you cannot speak

English, you cannot ring 999. The case finds that more money has been

spent promoting the Cornish language than it did English. I would like to

ask the Secretary of State if he now believes that English for a language

should not have been scrapped in light of his experience of a young

man. Will he commit to reinstating these classes? Communities have been

left behind and it is not acceptable to blame the people living in those

two minute is for this, the report has found. Many of the projects will

empower marginalised women, promote social mixing, tackling barriers to

employment and the most socially isolated groups. Projects have been

scrapped due to devastating cuts to local Government. Does the Secretary

of State recognised that cuts to local Government funding has

contributed to these problems and Willie push for fear of funding in

the coming Spending Review? The Minister agree that any initiatives

that facilitate better integration should be welcomed? -- will he.

Integration requires the active participation of all Britons. I

would also like to ask the secondary state, the report looks at

education, recommending strong safeguards for children not in

mainstream education. Canny outline what is being done by his department

and other departments to make sure those children are safeguarded? --

hanky? -- can he? The honourable lady, I am

pleased she agrees with me that these issues raised in the report

have been ignored too long by politicians on both sides of the

House. It is good that we agree on that and take this report as an

important step to starting to deal together with some of these issues.

She asks about English language. I am disappointed that after she

starts with the point about the Cornish language, if she looked at

it more closely, she would see it is misleading headline. In fact, what I

can tell her is that... She's talking about spending online which

by my department. I shall tell her the facts. We have spent ?680,000 on

the Cornish language. It is spent in fewer years, in five years, ?11

million on committee -based English language programmes. On top of that,

the rest of the Government has spent hundreds of millions of pounds in

supporting English. If we are going to have a proper debate, the

honourable lady would be well advised to stick to the facts and

use those in the debate. The honourable lady also asked about

local Government funding. She asked Will there be... She should know

that there is a fairer funding review going on. We will report back

early next year. She asked about the Muslim Council of Britain and some

of their early comments on the report. It is important to highlight

I went to speak to all groups, including the Muslim Council of

Britain and many others that have comments on the report and

suggestions about how we can take integration and cohesion forward.

She also asked about safeguarding, in particular of young Muslims that

might be vulnerable in some ways. She will know that the present

programme is exactly that. It is a safeguarding programme and that is

something I hope the whole house can support.

Call sharia law will be a voluntary choice for women lacking in close

communities? -- closed communities. My honourable friend raises an

important issue and it has come up in the report. First of all, it is

worth reminded me how that sharia law councils are not courts in

England and Wales and cannot legally enforced decisions and must operate

within national law. There are legitimate issues here, highlighted

in this report, and that is why I'm pleased the Government has already

started a full independent review of sharia law in England and Wales. I

look forward to the conclusions. Dame Louise Casey is my extensive

report comes at an interesting time, with Brexit exacerbating hate crime

and tensions ramping up. I am glad that in Scotland we have the

political leadership at all levels, whether that be First Minister

Nicola Sturgeon who has made welcome the new Scots who had chosen

Scotland, the tremendous honour of making Scotland home. A Glasgow City

Council we have a banner proclaiming at the front door refugees are

welcome. Also organisations fostering integration.

Order, order. Why is there so much noise in the chamber when the

honourable lady is speaking? She must be listened to.

The challenges I have highlighted, as highlighted in the review. In

some cases, these things are because. Ending austerity, I

believe, is the best thing this Government could do to tackle social

exclusion and promote integration. Well he challenged the -- will he

challenged the rhetoric that its people against each other? Will he

look to Scotland at how we give opportunities for people to share

experiences? Will he reversed the damaging cuts to ESOL? Willie

refused to accept the offensive suggestion that we require an

integration of. -- will he refused to accept this?

It is a shame she has to be so party political about this. It is a shame

she cannot act in a mature fashion. When she and the SNP have something

useful to say, I will respond. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As

the secretary of State had the opportunity to listen to two

important radio programmes on the things broadcast by the BBC a year

ago, the deobandis? I believe they shown an important light on the

problems which affect us. Well he agree that public servants

delivering this should be proud and apologetic about the important work

done to keep us safe. 'S first of all, I can tell my

honourable friend that I have not listened specifically to those

programmes mentioned on the Deobandis, but I am aware of the

issues faced by those committees. This report is a reminder about all

communities that we can help through Government action. He also raises

the prevent programme. I'm pleased to hear about his support, because

he has supported it for a while. My honourable gentleman knows it works.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister refers to the Prevent

strategy and in relation to children who are home-schooled, can he please

explain how that operates and how that success is measured?

Secretary of state. Home-schooling, you will know, is an

important and valuable option we offer. The education minister has

heard her mission question, and I am sure she will respond.

Are welcome this report but one concern about the report I have is

it does not have reflections on the future of faith schools, and

therefore the integration of young people across faiths. I hope that we

will look at that in particular. Can we take some urgent action on one of

the recommendations in the report? That would be children who are

withdrawn from education and educated at home, and they may not

receive the sort of education that we would like them to see. These

children are at risk right now and we need to take urgent action.

Secretary of state. My honourable friend raises an

important point that we are looking at unmonitored and unregistered

settings, and I think once that review is complete, it will help us

deal with the kind of issues he is concerned about. He talked generally

about faith schools, which are hugely important in our education

system and they provide variety. But frankly so many people choose

schools of faith because by and large they are excellent schools.

Many of them do a great job in promoting education. One of my own

brothers as a Muslim went to a Roman Catholic school and it put him a lot

about British society and values. I think we should find good practice

and promoted where we can. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Louise Casey is right to call at misogyny as one of the ways in which

women are socially excluded from a naughty ethnic communities, not an

issue some of us however ignored. -- and minority ethnic communities. But

will he talked about the misogynist fantasies of the Home Office to

exclude whites to come from overseas from access to free ESOL for the

first two years earlier? And for those women in Britain exploited by

husbands cheating their way into Britain on a marriage ticket? They

British citizens, what has happened British citizens, what has happened

to their citizens, and refuse to collaborate -- they refuse to tell

the wives. Unfortunately I do not recognise

much of what the honourable lady is talking about. She would do well to

stick to the facts. She talks about women coming to Britain and helping

them to learn English. As we honourable members have mentioned

already, the English is hugely important for integration, that is

why this Government has put in a requirement that before anyone can

come and settle permanently in this country, they must be able to speak

English. The report says this, that too many

public institutions national and local, state and non-state, have

gone so far to accommodate diversity and freedom of expression that they

have ignored or even condoned regressive, divisive and harmful

cultural and religious practices, for fear of being branded racist or

Islamophobic. Does the Secretary of State believe that this is a great

opportunity for Government to take a lead in forging a common, moderate

British identity that new arrivals must sign up to F integration will

take off? -- modern British identity.

Correct, and I said at the start and I am pleased to see she agrees. For

too long, politicians have ignored this issue. There was a fear of

being branded racist, and that is unacceptable. This is an excellent

opportunity for us to deal with it. Thank you. Integration is a two-way

process and it can be assisted by central Government but must be

delivered at a local level. I delivered at a local level. I

suggest to the Secretary of State something we can do which would

respond to the Casey Report is to give regional mayors in the West

Midlands the power, because I think they would be the best ones to then

know what kind of employment opportunities and integration

projects for better training and education should be applied.

I think the honourable lady is right about the importance of having local

flexibility and local control over the integration programme. She may

be well aware of the neighbours programme, where thousands of

projects run locally with voluntary groups and local authorities

involved, which I figured a good example, and she has made her do

suggest you and I listened carefully.

The Minister will be aware that the last two Muslims to be murdered in

hate crimes were murdered not by Brexit supporters but by other

Muslims. Does lets not show the importance of implementing the

report demanding that all communities sign up to gay rights,

women's rights and the rights to interpret religion in any way one

wishes? I think what my honourable friend

highlights the importance of promoting British values and making

sure that is something that is accepted by all communities in

Britain, and that includes intolerance and it includes freedom

of speech and freedom of religion and respect for democracy. The more

we can do to make sure every committee and braces that we will be

better. Right honourable gentlemen tolerance is part of British values.

I do not recognise the description of the Muslim community painted in

this route to that report, in respect of my home city of Leicester

were 20% are Muslim and 15% from ethnic minority communities. Yet I

have been to so many dinners for ethnic minority communities and

other events he will know what amenities will want more than

anything else is to belong, to integrate and to be ambitious for

their children. -- communities want this. In which other country had a

son of a bus driver being Secretary of State in the Cabinet, he talked

about as a potential Prime Minister? In which country in the world and we

have four Muslim woman being in the House today we adding all of their

constituents? Let us also, while accepting what this report says, be

positive about the huge contribution that the ethnic minority community

's have made. They have made this country great.

First of all, my honourable gentleman is right to highlight the

massive positive contribution that immigrants through the decades have

made to our great country and how they have made our country is

stronger country. He will also recognise, as he referred

specifically to Muslim communities and including in his home

constituency, that a lot of the issues are challenges that really

affect a minority of the Muslim community. I think members of the

Muslim community... I know factually that many members of the Muslim

community recognise there are problems and challenges that are

particular to their own community, and they as much as the right

honourable gentlemen, myself and others in this House want to do

that. In Bradford, we have issues of

segregation and integration in our communities, and I very much welcome

the report on what the Secretary of State has said today. Can I invite

him to come along to Bradford sometime next year to see what the

Government can do to help with local communities, with their desire for

more community cohesion and integration? In the meantime, can he

be very firm with local authorities and stop them from translating

documents into lots of different languages, and insist that they are

all in English only? Secretary of State.

Madam Deputy Speaker, first of all, my honourable friend, he of the

challenges in his own constituency, of segregation, lack of

integration... But I know that he will also be one of the first to

accept that... How different amenities have actually helped his

constituency in so many ways and brought so much for people to

celebrate. I would be more than happy to come to Bradford and look

at both issues with him. Thank you, and whilst a second part

of my colleague's invitation to Bradford, I do have a problem with

the second part... How will the Minister address the structural

inequalities affecting Muslim communities which restrict their

aspirations for greater engagement with society, especially Muslim

women? The honourable lady will know that

already there are a number of programmes in place, some since

2011, 2012, the Government has spent ?60 million on integration and

cohesion programmes, including teaching the language, the English

language, to isolated communities, many of those being women. But we

have always got to see what more we can do. There are some suggestions

in this report. It would be wrong of me to... Not to study them carefully

look at what might be the best way in which ones to take forward in

which ones to implement... And authority doing that. If the

honourable lady has looked at the report in detail, and has particular

suggestions I would be happy to listen to them.

Sport does so much to break down barriers, bring people together and

promote British values in our society on an organic basis.

Although we have a proud record in this country, will he see what more

can be done working across Government to help boost sporting

participation, particularly amongst young people?

He makes a very important point. I remember when I was the culture

Secretary, we did sponsor a number of programmes particularly in

cricket and football that involved a number of Asian men. That did help

with community integration and cohesion. He is right to raise the

issue again and we should be looking at a cross sport discussion to see

how we can make that happen. I fear the Secretary of State fine

words mask little England identity politics. As a self east Londoner

representing a Welsh speaking Trinity, can he assured me that

British values do not equate to the British state imposed identity and

commit to address poverty and intercommunity respect?

I think the honourable lady knows full well what British values mean

and that means value for every part of the British kingdom.

I agree that for too long we have had a soft headed attitude towards

integration, which is led to segregated communities. I know he

has been asked about faith schools. Can I ask him to spend some more

time looking at the report because I share his concern that faith schools

further isolate young children. Does he agreed that this report deserves

a serious and determined response? Can I thank my honourable friend for

the work that she has already done to campaign on so many of the issues

that are raised in this report and look forward to speaking to her in

detail about the report and considering the recommendations. She

raised the issue of faith schools. As she knows, it is raised in this

report and it is something we want to look at carefully and something

we will be discussing with my colleagues.

Thank you. Young Muslim women I've met in my constituency are engaging

and whip smart. They are not held back by lack of integration, but

lack of opportunity. Will be Secretary of State look closely at

the recommendation to provide additional funding for area -based

plans to empower marginalised women and promote social mobility?

What I can say is she is right to raise the issue of opportunity,

while the report is about opportunity and integration and we

have always got to look across Government to provide opportunities

for all communities, including young Muslim women. I think she will also

recognise that she has described young woman that she has come

across, and they sound fantastic and model citizens, but there are also

young Muslim women that are being held back and often sometimes by

their own family or members of the own community. For example, as we

have seen in this report and things I have heard and known about for a

long time from bitter experience, women who have been held back

because they have been told to go out of chaperones, told to dress in

a certain way and we should not take certain jobs are good you

university. We want to make sure we tackle those issues as well.

No doubt she agrees with that. Does my right honourable friend agree

that whilst Britain should always remain a tolerant and diverse

nation, it is also important that new communities feel an obligation

to integrate, embrace a common British identity and that we should

never use the excuse of multiculturalism to tolerate

practices that are clearly not in accordance with British laws, values

and customs? I could not agree with my honourable

friend more. I think we are in this report is highlight this, we all

realise that mistakes were made in the past. We should have

collectively done a better job in helping to integrate and setup new

arrivals and new communities into Britain. Now we should learn from

that and looking forward, there are interesting suggestions how we can

do that meeting in easily. In Oxford I remember language

classes being provided for immigrant women with the same women went to

the same class as you are after year with no improvement and the ability

to speak English. Does this report not point to the fact that it is not

a question of throwing money it, it is a question of Bikini language

tuition effective? I agreed with my honourable friend.

We have got to make sure... -- making sure the language tuition is

effective. We have to make sure the language teaching is effective and

as we power through the report and any new initiatives become up with,

we have got to make sure that the art effective in tackling that

problem. The report quite rightly highlights

the good work of organisations like Tal Mum and the security trust. It

also draws attention to the upsurge in violence from people from Poland

and elsewhere in recent months. Can the Secretary of State have urgent

discussions with his colleagues in the Home Office about how we can

reduce the impact of the poisonous ideologies which come from other

countries and cause tensions and even deaths as we saw in Glasgow in

this country? Firstly, the honourable gentleman

mentioned to organisations in his question. Two very effective and

very valuable organisations. The Government are proud to support the

work they do on their are many others as well. It highlights that

to deal with these issues it requires lots of groups and state to

come together, and that includes voluntary organisations. He asked me

to meet with the Home Secretary and I can assure them that I regularly

discuss these issues will have a mutual interest. You might be

interested to know that very recently the Home Secretary and I

jointly cheered a hate crime action plan, will we a number of groups

that you mention to discuss more that we can do -- chair. I read the

review and it considers many important aspects. The refugee

Council has called for a comprehensive refugee integration

strategy, which is echoed by what we are finding in the all party group,

which I am cheering. The told us that they want to learn English,

work and integrate. Will the Government please support expanding

the Syria resettlement programme to create a comprehensive strategy?

The honourable lady is right to raise the importance of making sure

that refugees are integrated quickly and we provide resources for that.

There are a number of programmes in place to try and do just that. If

she believes there is more that can be done, I would be happy to learn

more from her. I congratulate the honourable

gentleman on getting this urgent question. I do think we could be

more positive about it. In my constituency we have an integrated

multicultural community. We have had it for a very long time. We have

Muslim councils and candidates, Hindu, seek and we have Christian.

Both critical and conservatives, temples, mosques and churches. I

just wonder that sometimes, might it be an idea that somebody from your

department is to come down to see how it works well, rather than

always concentrating on where it is going wrong.

I think that is a very good idea and my honourable friend highlights this

is something we should never forget. Whilst we're talking about the

challenges and how to deal with them, that so many immigrants

through the ages have come to this great country images huge

contribution to our country and made it so much stronger.

I welcome all efforts to it improve integration in the UK and this is

not the first study to find problems. I am concerned that there

is no real understanding in this report of the simple truth that

integration is a two way street and it should definitely not be used, as

so often is, as stick with which to beat the minority communities of

Britain. Given that, I wonder whether the Minister will consider

and what work can be done to understand, as Casey does, it is not

the driving of isolation. Asking our minority Trinity is to do more and

how we can get our majority community to play their part as well

so that integration can be a true success in our country.

I know the honourable lady feels passionately about these issues and

she has bought about them a lot. I think she will have some good

suggestions and is someone I am always very happy to speak to. I do

think it is unfair on Dame Casey to see that she does not recognise it

is a two-way street. Dame Louise has come up with some recommendations

and I think should take them seriously. I have discussed this

with her in the past and I think is reflected in the report, she

recognises that is a role for everyone to play in all communities.

As a Bedford has been home for people from many origins were

decades, we can see that there are some two amenities some commuters

follow inter-generational dispersion. Other communities that

follow integration of proximity, children and grandchildren living

next door to the grandparents. Can I draw the attention to recommendation

number ten, about the use of housing policy to encourage dispersion and

which also consider the possibility of using planning policy to

encourage dispersion of places of worship?

I have listened carefully to what my honourable friend has to say. I know

having visited his constituency with him a number of times, he takes his

issues very seriously and I know that in his constituency he is able

to look at these issues and suggest certain ideas. I will look carefully

at the recommendation number ten. Thank you. I want to echo my

honourable friend's remarks about the two-way process and highlight

that the last Labour Government set out the forced marriage unit, the

committee cohesion unit, both I was involved in establishing. They did

excellent work tackling the underlying causes. I would urge the

Secretary of State to make sure that we provide the resources to address

those issues. Secondly, on discrimination of ethnic minority

graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed. I would urge the

Secretary of State to prioritise addressing the underlying problems

and barriers to be quality. Finally, to give attention to social

integration. I have as many challenges in my constituency

encouraging middle-class newcomers to integrate with the settled

communities, which are ethnic minorities, as I do the other way

around. We all have a part to play. If we can connect those communities

together through projects, mentoring, engagement, then we can

genuinely have a two-way process and a practical way to integrate people

rather than stigmatising setting communities. In this case, I believe

the news that committee in this report.

-- the Muslim committee. I am taking her last point first. She has done

committee work and I have seen how conservative it can be. She reasons

the issues of work opportunities. The Government does take that

seriously. I cheered this in my former role as Business Secretary

and encouraging opportunities for black, prickly young people. We are

looking to see what more can be done. She has also raised the issue

of forced marriage and other serious crimes of that nature. I think she

will agree with me that the Government has taken it seriously,

as did the previous Government. We have built an the good work. Much of

the good work has been done by the Prime Minister as Home Secretary.

This is his moment. His family experience and his sharp intellect

means he has the right man, in the right place at the right time. Dame

Louise Casey tackled head on the problems faced by thousands of

Muslim women in this country, many of whom don't speak English and

suffer misogyny and domestic violence at home, who are oppressed

by sharia law, have their life chances diminished. Can he ensure

the House today that it will not duck the challenge to seize the

recommendations from this report and to restore full human rights to this

very large cohort of oppressed women?

I can assure my honourable friend that I will not duck the issue is,

this Government will not duck the issue is. As I said right at the

start of this question, they have been ignored by too many politicians

were too long and that is not going to happen.

Secretary The of State will be the work of some concerns to prevent his

and demanding efforts to integrate the community. Can he mentioned

community led initiatives? The upper case prevent programme plays an

invaluable role which is accepted not just by the government, the

police, the CPS and others, but many community leaders themselves.

However, I recognise with certain people there is a confidence problem

around Prevent and we need to look to see what more we can do to turn

that around. Having more people involved in the community at a local

level is one way to do it. Madame Deputy Speaker, can I say how much I

welcome the presence of the Schools Minister on the front bench. One of

the best examples of community cohesion in my community is move

around academy school, rated excellent by Ofsted. I attended

their presentation evening last evening. They have 31 different

first languages at that school and they are producing wonderful young

people and will the Secretary of State praised me -- join me in

praising the governors and the pupils at that school. It sounds

absolutely fantastic and it sounds like we can learn more from their

approach and I look forward to doing that. Like other colleagues I have

concerns about integration in my own community. By no means things are

not bad, but it is true to say things could get much better. I say

in all good faith, where I had the resources to do this? Where are the

resources to run the youth clubs and the spores projects? Whenever

something goes badly wrong there is always a huge amount of resources

made available in the aftermath. The honourable gentleman knows that this

is an independent report and although there are a number of

recommendations, we need to go through them carefully and see which

ones we can build on. When I report back, which will be in the spring,

where that requires extra resource we will make sure that is available.

This was a review into opportunity in integration and the report

highlighted the persistent disadvantage of white, working-class

Jordan on free school meals who underperform at school. When the

government bring back their report in the spring, will they be

addressing that particular issue as well? Well, first of all there are a

number of actions that the Department for Education is taking

to address just that particular problem. She is right to raise it.

But she will also know that the Prime Minister has launched a race

disparity review and an audit which is looking at all public services,

whether education or across the government, and I am chairing that

process alongside the Cabinet Office minister and that work has just

begun. We are also trying to see for all communities, including white,

working-class boys, how the public services are provided and we are

trying to learn from that information to see what we can do.

And the lady who gets the last word! Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It

is right to highlight the important role we all have to play in building

strong, resilient, integrated and cohesive communities. It is

Newcastle's diverse and United communities which make it such a

great city. But will the Secretary of State also recognised the toxic

combination of scapegoating refugees and migrants for cuts to public

services, Muslims for terrorism, minorities for segregation and the

white, for xenophobia, build barriers to integration? Will he

take steps to address such attitudes wherever he may find them? Yes, I

will. I think she is right to highlight Newcastle. I think it is a

fantastic city and one of the reasons is because of its diverse

community and the contribution they all make to that great city. She is

right to say there should be no scapegoating, we should be focused

on the facts and driven by the facts and the report is for that and I

look forward to seeing what more we can do. Thank you, order. Oh, point

of order. Alison view list. Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I am not sure if you can say this was an order or not. I asked the

Secretary of State four legitimate questions and he refused to answer

any of those until I was more serious. Could you tell me, Madam

Deputy Speaker, how I can resolve this issue? I thank the honourable

lady for raising her point of order and indeed I heard her ask the

questions and I heard the Secretary of State's reply and I have to say

the Secretary of State is at liberty to give whatever reply he wishes as

long as he does so in an orderly and polite manner, which of course he

did. But the honourable lady is also at liberty to ask her questions in

other ways at question time by asking for an adjournment debate, by

putting down other questions to the Secretary of State and by raising

her issues again. It is not a matter for the chair at what the answer is.

I am satisfied the honourable gentleman was orderly in the way in

which he gave the answer to the honourable lady. Further to that

previous point of order, the honourable lady has said she asked

four questions to the Secretary of State. Could the chair give advice?

I thought members were only allowed to ask one question. I am delighted

to give the honourable gentleman that piece of advice. The honourable

gentleman is allowed to ask only one question. But the honourable lady is

here this afternoon in her capacity as a spokesperson for the Scottish

National party. In that capacity she may ask as many questions as she

likes, as long as it takes her only one minute to do so. Order. We now

come to the ten minute rule motion. Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan. Thank you,

Madam Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that leave be given to bring in a

bill to make provision for children of the serving members of the Armed

Forces to have a right of high priority admission to schools

outside the normal admissions arounds. It is an honour to stand to

present my first ten minute Law Bill on schools admissions for children

of our serving armed forces. Today is the patron Day of Saint Nicholas,

the patron saint of children and sailors. Tens of thousands of

military schoolchildren. Saint Nicholas is the guardian