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Lords Chamber
School Admissions: Selective Inclusion - Mon 08 Jun 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) which found that the top 500 secondary schools admit a lower proportion of pupils eligible for both free - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) premium, to adopt more inclusive admission arrangements. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) school meals, rather than SEND pupils as a whole. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) pupil numbers reflects demographic change across the whole school system. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children: Development of Essential Skills - Tue 02 Jun 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) Embedding oracy into the curriculum and into school-wide teaching can be a significant driver of the - Speech Link
2: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) Will the Minister extend pupil premium funding to disadvantaged young people aged 16 to 18, so they can - Speech Link
3: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) When children start school, early communication and language skills make a huge difference. - Speech Link
4: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) School has to be unmissable, and as my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 20 Apr 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) nursery, of brilliant schools such as the new Thomas Telford primary free school, and of the great further - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Many constituents have contacted me about the benefits of having more and better vegetarian school meals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
2nd reading - Thu 12 Mar 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) Add in the introduction of breakfast clubs and the extension of free school meals, and that figure will - Speech Link
2: Baroness Dacres of Lewisham (Lab - Life peer) of free school meals to all children of households on universal credit, benefiting half a million more - Speech Link
3: Lord John of Southwark (Lab - Life peer) healthy school meals for all primary school children and free swim-and-gym use for all residents. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We have already made a number of significant steps: investing heavily in expanding free school meals; - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 02 Mar 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Service pupil premium provided £26 million this financial year. - Speech Link
2: Claire Young (LD - Thornbury and Yate) We have seen with free school meals, breakfast clubs and teacher pay awards that each time the funding - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Lady mentions, such as breakfast clubs and the expansion of free school meals, we are putting significant - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Free school meals are a rather blunt way of doing that, and we are keen to explore ways of ensuring that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty Strategy - Mon 02 Mar 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) We are expanding free school meals to all families on universal credit, putting £600 million into the - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) school meals for children. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) school meals for children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving - Tue 24 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None clubs, expanding free school meals and removing the two-child limit. - Speech Link
2: None We will boost the impact of the pupil premium and the national funding formula, consulting on better - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) school meals analysis of whether somebody is disadvantaged does not really get to the heart of the nature - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) We will be maintaining—in fact, we have increased—spending on the pupil premium. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Schools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and Thriving - Mon 23 Feb 2026
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) clubs, expanding free school meals and removing the two-child limit. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) Finally, on changes to the pupil premium, which was devised, championed and introduced by our party, - Speech Link
3: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) premium and the targeting of disadvantage funding, I am keen to address the fact that free schools meals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) We cannot have an expectation of a phone-free school day, an inspection regime that means that, even - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Children eligible for free school meals or with special education needs are far more likely to be excluded - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Around 45% of these pupils were eligible for free school meals and 28% had special educational needs. - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Acton (Con - Life peer) At the Free Speech Union, we have come across numerous examples of school safeguarding policies being - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) from other key stakeholders, will provide schools with guidance on whole-school approaches to pupil - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) They clubbed together to secretly put school supplies on the student’s bed to help him through school - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Elim church has built a hospital, a health centre, a primary school and a secondary school, and it - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) hours a week, and tripling the early years pupil premium to £1,000 a year.We want a Government who fulfil - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) That is why we have put 750 primary breakfast clubs in place and extended free school meals to half a - Speech Link