PRIVATELY-EDUCATED PUPILS AND THEIR FUTURE EARNINGS

Early day motion 227, tabled 7 July 2014 by George Galloway (Respect). Signed by 5 members.

That this House deplores the inequality in the British education system which ensures that children from private schools will have earned £200,000 more than state school pupils by middle age, according to a survey carried out by the Sutton Trust; points out that these independent schools are bastions of privilege where predominantly affluent families can buy their children's financial success in later life by paying high fees for education; calls for an open access scheme to be imposed where all young people from disadvantage backgrounds are admitted for free to such schools; and demands that the Government removes the charitable status from all private schools as they are clearly anything but charitable.

Signatures by party: Labour 4, Respect 1.