i am not sure that gerry adams will be delighted to be a baron of the manor of northstead, but none theless, i am pleased that tradition has been maintained. on the very serious point that the right honorable gentleman makes about allowances, in my view we should be aiming for all members who are elected to take their seats in this house. that is what should happen and if some members have a problem with what that entails, they ought to look at a remedy for that and should come and talk about it. that is the most important thing we could achieve. >> will the prime minister join me in congratulating vaynor first school in redditch, where i am chairman of the governors, on having recently received a good ofsted report despite the continual lack of fairer funding from the labour party? will he also welcome the extra funding that will be heading to worcestershire schools, due to the pupil premium, totalling more than 3 million pounds? >> my honorable friend makes a very good point, and i hope that everyone in the house will be able to welcome the fact, first, that the amount of spending per