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On Monday 10 May the Government made a statement to the House of Commons about academies and was questioned by MPs about it.

The Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan MP) said: “We still want every school to become an academy by 2022. We always intended this to be a six-year process in which good schools should be able to take their own decisions about their future as academies. However, we understand the concerns that have been raised about a hard deadline and legislating for blanket powers to issue academy orders. That is why I announced on Friday that we have decided it is not necessary to take blanket powers to convert good schools in strong local authorities to academies at this time.”

You can read the full statement and transcript of the questioning by MPs on the Hansard website: https://hansard.digiminster.com/commons/2016-05-09/debates/1605097000001/%E2%80%9CEducationalExcellenceEverywhere%E2%80%9DAcademies

You can watch the full statement and questioning by MPs on Parliament TV: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ddc7beeb-6dc7-4df7-ae42-692e767fb4b4?in=16:18:13