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Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill
3rd reading - Fri 17 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Some commentators have noted that absence is higher among children on free school meals, but one multi-academy - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Having a regional approach meant that, for families who had primary schools kids at one school and secondary - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) We will roll out free breakfast clubs in every primary school. - Speech Link
4: Luke Hall (Con - Thornbury and Yate) We have the fourth best primary school readers in the world, and our secondary school children have risen - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Community Sports: Impact on Young People - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) down by 12%, and those who do not participate are significantly more likely to be on free school meals - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) of physical education and two hours of physical activity in school, and a chance of two hours of physical - Speech Link
3: Baroness Nye (Lab - Life peer) The programme will cost an estimated £15 million to roll out across all 32,000 primary and secondary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (XB - Life peer) We offer free early education to three and four year-olds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) school meals, should in itself be an enormous red flag to politicians and policymakers concerned with - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, as ever, I declare my interest as a state secondary school teacher in Hackney. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free School Meals - Tue 07 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) When free infant school meals were rolled out, two in five headteachers told the Education Policy Institute - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) out on free school meals. - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) and all secondary school students are subject to a means-tested offer. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) school meals to disadvantaged children in further education colleges. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Because children often have that choice about which secondary school they go to, they will know what - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) Those two cohorts were identical in all respects—special educational needs and disabilities, free school - Speech Link
3: None That is why Labour has committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school in England - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Friend the Member for Chelmsford said, when going into a secondary school, for example, families will - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) school meals and food banks to feed their families all contribute to intense stress. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) school meals for children. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) responses to the consultation, and then we will publish a response setting out findings and bringing for secondary - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) For example, we have extended free school meal eligibility several times and to more groups of children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I declare my interests as a research fellow on public health at the Milken Institute School of Public - Speech Link
2: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) To make these changes stick, they should be underpinned by secondary legislation.Thirdly, in consultation - Speech Link
3: Lord Turnberg (Lab - Life peer) Meals on wheels has disappeared and support services are squeezed out completely. - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) Our new plan regarding school checks and water fluoridation is all to help with that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) Is a private school a public body? - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) My widowed mother could never have paid school fees. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) governors should sit poring over the school meals procurement to see whether they are contravening the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) I assume that secondary schools will be regarded as public bodies. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) All public bodies must be free to avoid investment in fossil fuels, which are contributing to climate - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) With that in mind, I wrote to every secondary school in my constituency to ask young people their views - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and, if need be, during all meals - Speech Link
3: Adam Afriyie (Con - Windsor) Back in 1982, 13% of 11 to 15-year-olds—secondary-school kids—smoked. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) As others have said, education is really important on that. - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Students from Westcliff High School for Girls, Southend High School for Girls, Southend High School for - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tutoring Provision - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) This is a school where 79% of students receive free school meals, and it is in the area that is the focus - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Having universal free school meals for every child in primary school is not a good idea, because why - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) school meals in the past six years. - Speech Link