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Lords Chamber
Ofsted: Pupil Absence Rates - Tue 13 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) from primary and secondary schools, which is more than double the figure five years ago. - Speech Link
2: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) I assure your Lordships that, unless that sort of education is deeply embedded, the absence rates of - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) and how children are identified as those, for instance, receiving free school meals or who are not able - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) attendance, particularly in transition year groups such as year seven, when children go from primary to secondary - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) school meals, but one MAT leader who has done a lot of research at school level suggested that may not - Speech Link
2: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) to secondary school, which sets the tone for them as they move into older cohorts. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) More children are now eligible for free school meals as a result of the protections put in place on universal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Obesity - Thu 01 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) It is reliably estimated, meanwhile, that £1.70 is returned for every £1 invested in free school meals - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The school food standards ensure that children have healthy food and drink options across the school - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) I was a secondary school teacher before I became a Member of Parliament, and I sometimes wish I had known - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I met an Education Minister this morning and highlighted the number of children who are not in school - Speech Link
3: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) Secondary school pupils across the UK experienced significantly higher rates of depression and social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) These are staggering, eyewatering costs, which could pay for 100 million free school meals or nearly - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) But Rwanda does not have a secondary school system, so does the arrangement that is being made with Rwanda - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) into being—I think this was mentioned earlier in the debate—was to deal with exactly the Humpty Dumpty school - Speech Link
4: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) In either case, the implications for housing, health and education would, of course, be huge. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Expanding free school meals has a direct impact on children’s health, promoting cognitive development - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) are now eligible for free school meals, compared with one in six when Labour was in Government. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) We have extended eligibility for free school meals on three occasions, mainly with universal infant free - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children Not in School: National Register and Support - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) uniforms and provide free breakfast clubs in every primary school. - Speech Link
2: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) There will be free breakfast clubs in every primary school, because it is about the club, not just the - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) age group.There are now considerably more children in receipt of free school meals than the last time - Speech Link
4: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) At secondary level, there was a 10.2% absence rate, including 4.9% due to illness. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Child Poverty: Greater Manchester - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) For example, 27% of secondary school pupils receive free school meals in Manchester, compared with 14.1% - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) school meals for children in reception, year 1 and year 2. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Free School Meals: Children with SEND - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) on human rights if children receiving state education other than at school are not provided with meals - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) Free breakfast clubs and universal free school meals were at the heart of that. - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) school meals for all primary and secondary school students—something that a lot of people agree with - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) school meals can access them, and that schools and other education settings are properly supported to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Dentistry - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) that pregnant mothers have been telling him they cannot get an NHS dentist, despite being entitled to free - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Last September, it became breakfast club meals. - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) they are all seen by a dentist, and it would free up space in dental practices.Currently, our children - Speech Link
4: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) The start of an education and preventive approach should be in our schools. - Speech Link
5: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) actually understands good economics—that dealing with issues early saves cases worsening and ending up in secondary - Speech Link