However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I want to give producers more financial security.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.