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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 23 Nov 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Simon Baynes (CON - Clwyd South) (b) A-level exams can take place in 2021. - Speech Link
2: Gordon Henderson (CON - Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (b) A-level exams can take place in 2021. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) GCSEs and A-levels are two-year courses. - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We have delayed this summer’s exams—GCSEs and A-levels—by three weeks to free up teaching time. - Speech Link
5: Ruth Cadbury (LAB - Brentford and Isleworth) even the delayed GCSEs and A-levels next summer, and they are still waiting. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Education (Exemption from School and Further Education Institutions Inspections) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 - Thu 29 Oct 2020
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Massey of Darwen (LAB - Life peer) good practice in some aspects of a school’s offering, such as the use of pupil premium funding and a - Speech Link
2: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) In a system with a lot of leeway given to individual schools and multi-academy trusts, inspection is - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) In my view, a fundamental mistake was made in March and April in closing the school system down. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) assessment systems for GCSEs and A-levels next year in the difficult circumstances that we will clearly - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) There is confidence in Ofsted and it serves a great purpose. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Black History Month - Tue 20 Oct 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Adam Afriyie (CON - Windsor) a child in the ’60s and ’70s. - Speech Link
2: John Cryer (LAB - Leyton and Wanstead) He took part in the struggle for independence and he continued to do that, as a trade unionist and a - Speech Link
3: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) She knows a lot about it and campaigns a lot about it, and I think everybody in this House respects her - Speech Link
4: Julie Marson (CON - Hertford and Stortford) for a very long time and, of course, this should be reflected in our history and in our culture.The - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) In history, there is not a definite right and wrong. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Exams: Covid-19 - Mon 12 Oct 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) call to debate the petition and put into action a plan to reduce the content of GCSEs and A-levels so - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) a miserable time in the last six months of their GCSEs or A-levels. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) In August, Labour called for A-level and GCSE exams in 2021 to be pushed back to June, to give pupils - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) is important, and while the Government were clear that the content of GCSEs and A-levels will not be - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Coronavirus Act 2020: Temporary Provisions - Mon 28 Sep 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Rochester (Bishops - Bishops) to human flourishing and well-being in a broader sense. - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) part in a winter sport—who will hit the ground and come up covered in mud and water—will need to change - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Where is the plan to stop SATs and find alternative methods of assessment for GCSEs, A-levels, BTECs - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Above all, they will need to present them clearly, on time and in a sympathetic and concise way. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) We are now in a very different place in terms of our scientific and medical knowledge and society’s behaviour - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Awarding of Qualifications: Role of Ministers - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) qualifications in GCSE, A-Level and NVQs in 2020 and 2021 by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of - Speech Link
2: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) have now received, for GCSEs, AS-levels and A-levels as well as for vocational and technical qualifications - Speech Link
3: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) of April, Ofqual published a policy document on awarding grades for GCSEs and A and AS-levels, which - Speech Link
4: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) , in particular, the challenge presented to students due to take their GCSEs, A-levels and BTECs who - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Government’s handling of GCSEs, A-levels and NVQs this year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Exams will be available in all GCSE, AS and A-level subjects in the autumn. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) and those who work in schools but the community as a whole. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) both GCSEs and A-levels. - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) That is one of the reasons why we put on an autumn series of exams in all subjects across GCSEs, A-levels - Speech Link
5: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) for his passion and his support for a GCSE in British Sign Language. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Coronavirus Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Tue 24 Mar 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (LAB - Life peer) Cremation is forbidden in Islam and Judaism, and therefore the possibility of forcing a cremation on - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Rochester (Bishops - Bishops) In many ways we are entering into a strange land, and indeed in some ways a land of exile: a land in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (LAB - Life peer) My view is that the decision to cancel GCSEs and A-levels was disproportionate and made without sufficient - Speech Link
4: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) Why start spending and investing only in a terrible crisis like this? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education and Local Government - Tue 14 Jan 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) In the years that he was an MP, he made a major impact in our town and in this place. - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (LAB - St Helens North) in building a better future for them and, indeed, for every family in St Helens. - Speech Link
3: James Daly (CON - Bury North) I have been a councillor in my constituency for more than seven years and a partner in a small business - Speech Link
4: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) It is, in fact, a basic measure of a just and compassionate society, as well as a statutory duty for - Speech Link
5: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) is more than four walls and a roof—it is about someone investing in their future and their family, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) no option in the entire borough for doing academic A-levels and must leave the borough in order to study - Speech Link
2: Justine Greening (IND - Putney) independence and success for a new generation, and a sense of place and meaning in people’s lives. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) We are seeing the biggest changes in GCSEs and the curriculum for a generation, of which many people - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) )(a)”.(35) In section 114 (cars, vans and related benefits), in subsection (2)—(a) in paragraph (a), - Speech Link