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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I very much appreciate the intention behind the amendment, which is to streamline the process and free - Speech Link
2: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) Relying on national and local politicians will not be enough in a world where building a secondary school - Speech Link
3: None At only nine meals from anarchy, this issue deserves much closer scrutiny. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) That is a free-standing obligation outside the NRF. - Speech Link
5: None With this explanation, I hope that the noble Lord will feel free not to press his amendments. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer) school and education setting is doing, for pupils and for the schools themselves. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) is struggling, particularly a secondary school. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con - Life peer) For children with special needs, the Lighthouse School in Leeds, the first special free school, has supported - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) While financial education is a statutory part of the secondary school curriculum in England, it is not - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Do we think we should teach financial education in school? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) This maintained school is doing a really good job”. - Speech Link
2: None into a maintained school. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Tens of thousands of such professionals exist in our education system. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) of State to determine pay levels through secondary legislation. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Remote Coastal Communities - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) cost £53, but in the summer it can cost £100, and county councils spend twice as much on home-to-school - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) When I visit teachers in Torbay secondary schools, I reflect on how there is often a bay mentality and - Speech Link
3: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) Plymouth Marjon University shows that schools in such locations struggle in vital areas, including school - Speech Link
4: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy were all lower in coastal - Speech Link
5: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) school meals and their parents have relatively low qualification levels. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) They take children to school, with employment fitting around it—one parent takes the children to school - Speech Link
2: None People detained in immigration removal centres—IRCs—are entitled to just 30 minutes of free advice via - Speech Link
3: None Even if existing schemes provide free legal advice to the minority who can access them, the experience - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) They do not have carve-outs and are not given a free pass. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) , talking to young students who I think were at the top end of primary school. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) We also began one-hour free parking, the most generous free parking offer in all London boroughs, which - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) Moorside primary became an early adopter of our free breakfast club programme, Shotley Bridge school - Speech Link
3: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) That is why I have backed the Government’s plan to expand free school meals to every child whose family - Speech Link
4: Peter Prinsley (Lab - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket) Free school meals and breakfast clubs will be one of the most important things that this Government do - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Juliet Campbell (Lab - Broxtowe) However, as we know, dyslexic children tend to leave school or education with disproportionately lower - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) The sixth form of the Lakes school near Windermere provides further education for young people within - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) breakfast clubs and free school meals, boost the national minimum wage and cap universal credit deductions - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) school meals, the new breakfast club that is opening in his constituency will be a big boost to his - Speech Link
5: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) We are delivering new free breakfast clubs, free school meals, cheaper uniforms, high-quality childcare - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) on the number of children who will lose entitlement to free school meals as a result of the end of the - Speech Link
2: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) I had free school meals and free school uniforms, and I had the opportunity to go to university without - Speech Link
3: Luke Myer (Lab - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) school meals, roll out free breakfast clubs and establish the child poverty taskforce. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
SEND Provision: South-east England - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: John Milne (LD - Horsham) If a specialist school cannot cope, how on earth do we expect a regular school to manage? - Speech Link
2: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) , the local authority insists that he attend a mainstream secondary school. - Speech Link
3: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) , still does not know where he will go to secondary school. - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) I recently had the opportunity to see that in action in Kent, when I visited Astor secondary school in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Educational Attainment of Boys - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) There is a 22% gap in the borough between boys who receive free school meals and those who do not when - Speech Link
2: Natasha Irons (Lab - Croydon East) Among pupils eligible for free school meals, the attainment gap falls across the same old fault lines - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) For example, among white boys who were not on free school meals, 38% went to university. - Speech Link