Members whose constituencies include a football ground in a densely populated area know exactly what I am talking about. So there is improvement not just in my constituency, but in constituencies outside my area. As I said earlier, the consultation was carried out by the Department for Education and Employment and has now been completed. Parents' groups have produced their own alternatives to the city council's proposals because they feel that the present base formula sometimes works against them. They think that there is a case not only for the retention of the schools, but of other amenities such as playing fields, libraries and nurseries at some of those schools.
Parents feel that the present formula needs to be more flexible.
The assessment management consultation document is still out to consultation. Will my hon. Lots of people would be interested in that. Some ideas have been incorporated in public thinking concerning experiments in primary education in the United States of America, in which infant classes were reduced to 18 to 20 pupils. I do not know whether my hon.