People may check us out because they realize the need of education. Once competition comes, usually it creates more efficiency.

We've always felt that added competition, reduced cost, more efficiency would grow the market overall.

The Department for Education and Skills should also consider whether there is scope to realize further efficiency and effectiveness benefits through a child population register.

All the players have got a point to prove because there is competition for places and none of them are safe.

If you look at the empirical findings, the biggest competition is not between states. It's between cities within states that are close to each other. That's where you'll find most of the action going on, and actually, it's worse, because it's likely to have the most negative impact on the public purse where the competition is so local.

It was the best move for increasing our overall efficiency and that helps us improve our returns to our member-owners. The milk supply is declining. We determined by closing, we could move the production to other facilities and make them even more efficient.