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Westminster Hall
Village Schools - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) For many villages, the school is part of the fabric of rural life. - Speech Link
2: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) I welcome the steps the Government have taken to increase the school budget, expand free school meals - Speech Link
3: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) places and manage the school estate efficiently. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Creative Education - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) The less creativity there is at a school, the less likely the teachers are capable of teaching it. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2025 - Thu 04 Dec 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) Combined with other steps we have already taken, including extending free school meals to more families - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) Will it be the case that universal free school meals will encourage people to work more hours? - Speech Link
3: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) They are expected to fund breakfast clubs, free school meals and teacher pay awards—not with new investment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Andrew Cooper (Lab - Mid Cheshire) Free breakfast clubs in every state-funded primary school will ensure no child starts the day hungry. - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The attainment gap has narrowed, and children eligible for free school meals are now 50% more likely - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) school meals, but they subsequently decided to copy the policy and announced that they will introduce - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) I really welcome today’s statement on heating, with help for households; on eating, with school meals - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) Free school meals for all primary schoolchildren were subsequently rolled out across London, and we know - Speech Link
3: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab - Smethwick) We are seeing breakfast clubs and free school meals, along with more GPs and nurses. - Speech Link
4: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) Whether we are talking about Labour’s breakfast clubs, the free school meals provided by the Labour Mayor - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) school meals, opening free breakfast clubs in every primary school and investing in historic amounts - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Baccalaureate: Funding in State Schools - Wed 29 Oct 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) He is right to mention the Europa School in Culham in my constituency; I will say more about that school - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Per-pupil funding had fallen by approximately 11% for colleges and 23% for school sixth form by 2024- - Speech Link
3: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) Far fewer students are drawn from disadvantaged backgrounds; I have a list of the rates of free school - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) Compared to other schools, faith-selective schools admit fewer children eligible for free school meals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) school meals, according to the Sutton Trust; fewer children in care, according to the Office of the - Speech Link
3: None Indeed, according to the IPPR, a think tank, children on free school meals are five times more likely - Speech Link
4: Baroness Morris of Yardley (Lab - Life peer) For example, it does not matter whether they are an academy, a maintained school, a faith school, a free - Speech Link
5: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) We know that children from disadvantaged backgrounds and on free school meals are more likely to have - 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) If anybody—a parent, a pupil or school—were to have a complaint about the work of the ISI, they would - Speech Link
2: None or an academy 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: Lord Sewell of Sanderstead (Con - Life peer) There were also rigorous school improvement methods—no school was allowed to fail Ofsted. - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Should we insist that every primary school pupil should have swimming lessons and be able to swim 25 - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) Importantly, over 50% of the students are eligible for the pupil premium and the admission policy prioritised - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) This maintained school is doing a really good job”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) No longer will a failing maintained school automatically join a strong MAT. - Speech Link
4: None into a maintained school. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Early Education and Childcare - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We announced the largest ever increase in the early years pupil premium, and a £75 million early years - Speech Link
2: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) eligible for free school meals can make a real difference and help to ensure that every child gets the - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) We have also announced the largest increase in the early years pupil premium since its introduction, - Speech Link
4: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) In just one year, up to 2,970 more children will receive free school meals in Exeter. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) school meals from September next year. - Speech Link