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Commons Chamber
Education, Skills and Training - Wed 25 May 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) on strike and disrupting teaching and exams. - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) Lady accept that social clauses within public sector contracts, which have worked very effectively in - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) The Home Secretary and the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. - Speech Link
4: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) The Sure Start centres, for instance, helped me to be a better mum when I was 16. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Educational Attainment: Yorkshire and the Humber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) For schools that have been judged to require improvement, new heads will have a grace period of around - Speech Link
2: Dan Jarvis (LAB - Barnsley Central) age of two, because services and children’s centres need to be co-ordinated in a whole-family approach - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) One particular point hit home:“Social mobility for my generation speeded up in the 1950’s”,due to the - Speech Link
4: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) improves pupil attainment in national tests or national exams, or leads to school improvements. - Speech Link
5: Melanie Onn (LAB - Great Grimsby) It allows students to learn skills for the engineering, care and digital industries among others. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Skills and Growth - Wed 17 Jun 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tristram Hunt (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) the public finances to good health is not an inconsiderable concern for this Parliament to address.What - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) for the public sector. - Speech Link
4: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The CBI is right to call for a cross-party review of 14-to-19 education considering exams, the curriculum - Speech Link
5: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) not want to accept any responsibility for what you are accusing others of. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Lesser-taught languages - Tue 24 Mar 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick de Bois (CON - Enfield North) with that exam, arguing that only 1,700 GCSE students and 600 A-level students entered for it. - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (LAB - Llanelli) Gentleman accept that the exam boards have for a long time cross-subsidised the smaller subject areas - Speech Link
3: Nick de Bois (CON - Enfield North) We require exam bodies to invest in the future by keeping and growing modern language courses, not cutting - Speech Link
4: Richard Bacon (CON - South Norfolk) it, is not the answer for the state to say to exam boards, “If you wish to be an exam board, we will - Speech Link
5: Mark Lazarowicz (LAB - Edinburgh North and Leith) not just for people in Scotland who want to take exams in Polish, or other languages, or for people - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Infant Class Sizes - Wed 03 Sep 2014
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (LAB - Lewisham East) classes and close to home. - Speech Link
2: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) It does not accept that parents want better for their children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education: Social Mobility - Thu 13 Mar 2014
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Northbourne (CB - Excepted Hereditary) do is to encourage and require schools, particularly secondary schools, to develop in their pupils the - Speech Link
2: Lord True (CON - Life peer) that.The independence of schools is something that people in local government and everywhere must accept - Speech Link
3: Lord Graham of Edmonton (LAB - Life peer) the exam, the 11-plus”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lexden (CON - Life peer) cater for their local communities. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) Could this be a model to be adopted for all public institutions? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Teaching Quality - Wed 29 Jan 2014
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michael Gove (CON - Surrey Heath) the public domain, unless we are prevented from doing so for legal reasons. - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) We have a rigorous accountability regime for exams, Ofsted and pupil choice. - Speech Link
3: John Pugh (LDEM - Southport) and exams for the Joint Matriculation Board. - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) I didn’t pass my exam, but, because I know what I’m talking about, allow me to operate on you.” - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Children and Families Bill - Mon 28 Oct 2013
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Lord Ramsbotham (CB - Life peer) offers to include access to services for children who are educated in non-maintained early years settings - Speech Link
2: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) The regulations also require the local offer to include the arrangements that such providers have for - Speech Link
3: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) the education they get is not appropriate for them at their age, or to help them get through exams. - Speech Link
4: Countess of Mar (CB - Excepted Hereditary) ; results in better exam grades than a child with ME can otherwise achieve; costs less than home tuition - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Children and Families Bill - Wed 23 Oct 2013
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) at home, but would not require any educational interventions.Research from the universities of Bath - Speech Link
2: Lord Ramsbotham (CB - Life peer) the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice or the Department for Communities and Local Government. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Northover (LDEM - Life peer) That may be an implementation challenge for many local authorities but it does not require a change to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Eaton (CON - Life peer) pools and play centres for families across Suffolk, the council has not had to provide any expensive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Examination Reform - Wed 16 Jan 2013
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Twigg (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) It is one thing for an education system to produce well-educated deferential citizens; another to produce - Speech Link
2: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) They were not going back to a nice middle-class home. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Percy (CON - Brigg and Goole) We would not and we have to understand and accept that. - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) The EBacc places no value on the subjects that will equip local students to take advantage of such opportunities.Of - Speech Link
5: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) call centres, among other places. - Speech Link