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Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) In many developing countries girls struggle to get an education, with 129 million girls out of school - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) It’s our aim to democratise financial education by providing free and engaging content to those who need - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) We have free school meals for everybody in primary 1 to 5 and for eligible children throughout their - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) As I said, we have free school meals for everybody in the first five years of primary school and for - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (Con - Thurrock) I went to my local education authority a few years ago to talk about the need to progress a free school - Speech Link
4: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) Just looking at my own constituency, we have had two brand new secondary schools built, a big new special - Speech Link
5: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) I am pleased that Labour is committed to ensuring that all primary school children have free breakfast - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
World Book Day - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) It is important to remember that the joy of reading can be accessed for free. - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) For those receiving free school meals, the figure climbs to one in five pupils. - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) The Department for Education’s essential skills entitlement provides the opportunity of free study for - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Giving those on free school dinners book tokens, and paying for teachers dedicated to helping with reading - Speech Link
5: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) By the time she was at secondary school, the path her life seemed to be set on was not a good one. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) prescriptions, free university tuition, free school meals, free bus travel for under-22s and free dental - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) school meals to all children in years 1 to 5 and to all eligible children throughout the school; providing - Speech Link
3: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Down the road is the product of the Government’s free school policy: a school with 25 pupils per class - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) At this rate, children will be in secondary school before they have adequate childcare provision.As well - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) I am delighted that the Mayor of London has pledged free school meals across the whole of the city, even - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Educational Attainment of Boys - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) White schoolboys eligible for free school meals have lower higher-education participation rates than - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) Of those eligible for free school meals, only 34% of white British boys, 35% of mixed white and black - Speech Link
3: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) Boys on free school meals continue to be let down by schools that fail to provide an environment geared - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) school meals, coming from the poorest families. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Funding for Youth Services - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) trips and 23% in households where parents skipped meals or reduced portion sizes.”The report also says - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Westmorland and Furness Council does a brilliant job in offering fantastic free youth worker training - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) and formal education. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tackling Obesity - Tue 27 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) As I said, this support needs to be maintained and to continue through secondary education, as well as - Speech Link
2: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) prescriptions, free school meals, free childcare, free period products, free university education and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pupil Mental Health, Well-being and Development - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) On that point, I must as ever declare my interest as a secondary school teacher in a state school in - Speech Link
2: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab - Life peer) meals to be undertaken. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) She started to struggle with her mental health when she started secondary school. - Speech Link
4: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) I was always a great sceptic about free school meals, and I have done a complete volte-face on that as - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) the local secondary school and the links were fantastic. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Access to Education: South-East Northumberland - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) school, to find the right secondary school and ensure that support is in place, and for places and support - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) who are now going to secondary school. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Register of Children not in School - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) In East Sussex, 68% were of secondary-school age, compared with 32% at primary level.Hastings and Rye - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) The additional support available for school meals, and the activities, exercise and everything else that - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) We will introduce free breakfast clubs for every primary school pupil in England, providing every child - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) club policy specifically on primary school, because we know that absence is more acute in secondary - Speech Link
5: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) A mental health professional will be based in every secondary school in the country, with mental health - Speech Link