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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) We are pleased to see an overall increase in entries for STEM A-levels and GCSEs by girls this year, - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) £895 million to recruit an additional 13,500 work coaches by March 2021—which we achieved. - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Although appointment numbers have returned to pre-pandemic levels, of course patients and the public - Speech Link
4: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Awarding Qualifications in 2021 and 2022 - Thu 22 Jul 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) To ensure fairness, that applies to GCSEs, AS-levels, A-levels and the vocational and technical qualifications - Speech Link
2: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) In 2022 there will be performance tables for GCSEs and A-levels, but not for primary school SATs, given - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) fairness in how grades are awarded in 2021. - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) tables for GCSEs and A-levels. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jul 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) They are employer-led and job-focused, and they cover all levels, from GCSEs up to degree level. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) qualifications such as A-levels and GCSEs, which are developed by awarding organisations, usually of - Speech Link
3: None The take-up has been 43 providers in 2020, 105 providers in 2021 and 190 providers in 2022, and we have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) Ofqual does not set any curriculum for A-levels or GCSEs and neither would it, in our view, be the appropriate - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) Just last month, in June 2021, the DfE itself published a report, Student Mental Health and Wellbeing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid-19: Children - Thu 17 Jun 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blower (LAB - Life peer) children and young people in classrooms.Coronavirus has exposed the reality of child poverty in 2021 - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) mental health in March 2021 as the restrictions eased, children in special educational needs and in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) 2021 annual report that, of the over half a million children and young people referred to CAMHS in 2019 - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) to cancel the cut permanently will once again demonstrate a mismatch between their words and their figures - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) At the same time, we have introduced T-levels, a high-quality alternative to A-levels. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Apr 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Largan (CON - High Peak) Does the Education Secretary agree that investing in further education and T-levels in places such as - Speech Link
2: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) Overall, Government investment in research and development across the UK is up to £14.9 billion in 2021 - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Guidance has been published to support secondary schools to determine grades for GCSE, A-levels and AS-levels - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) This year’s students taking their GCSEs and A-levels and some vocational and technical qualifications - Speech Link
5: John Spellar (LAB - Warley) 66 that have a university degree or two A-levels. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Covid-19: Impact on Education - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) The first petition is to do with cancelling GCSEs and A-levels in 2021 and replacing them with coursework - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) regarding this issue.On the petitions about GCSEs and A-levels, I appreciate that the Government were - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We did not want to cancel exams in either 2020 or 2021. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Remote Education and Free School Meals - Mon 18 Jan 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) We extended our commitment in August by a further 150,000, and did so again in September, and in October - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) I spent eight and a half years working as a teacher and a head of year in state secondary schools across - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) a U-turn, it was too late for some of them.Now the Government have cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, which - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) [Official Report, 21 January 2021, Vol. 687, c. 6MC.]It is up to schools to decide how they want to sort - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
School Closures: Support for Pupils - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) is particularly concerning when the UK has one of the worst levels of inequality in the developed world - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) It is time we took a leap forward in online education, and 2021 needs to be the year that happens. - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We will therefore cancel the statutory key stages 1 and 2 tests and the teacher assessments planned for - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) That is why GCSEs, and A-level and AS-level exams, will not go ahead as planned this summer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid-19: Educational Settings - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (CON - Bosworth) I understand why GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled and I am pleased to hear my right hon. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) The Secretary of State has made a timely decision to scrap GCSEs, AS-levels and A-levels, and I very - Speech Link
3: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) I welcome the Secretary of State’s U-turn on GCSEs and A-levels, late though it was, adding to the pressure - Speech Link
4: Gagan Mohindra (CON - South West Hertfordshire) For those students due to have sat GCSEs, and AS and A-levels later this year, we have had to make the - Speech Link
5: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) colleges and lecturers in those next steps and the awarding of grades in the summer for A-levels, GCSEs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Health - Wed 06 Jan 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None ) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 8), dated 5 January 2021, a copy of which was laid before - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (IND - West Suffolk) ) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 8), dated 5 January 2021, a copy of which was laid before - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) and A-levels in their usual form will leave many long-term gaps in learning, created by the loss of - Speech Link
4: Ian Liddell-Grainger (CON - Bridgwater and West Somerset) However, my constituency covers the vast rural area of the Exmoor and the levels in Somerset, and one - Speech Link
5: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) They must cancel their planned £20 a week cut to universal credit, and bring in the right to food.The - Speech Link