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Lords Chamber
Schools: Admissions - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) I know of no secondary Anglican school that has ever debarred a child on grounds of religion. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) there is no bishop here to defend the wonderful contribution that the established Church has made to education - Speech Link
3: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB - Life peer) My Lords, I was present when the then Education Secretary Michael Gove, on a visit to the Guru Nanak - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) There is evidence of low numbers of pupils eligible for free school meals, which is a measure of deprivation - Speech Link
5: Lord Carey of Clifton (CB - Life peer) Does the Minister agree that that has always been the focus of education in England, and that we all - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Teaching Assistant Pay - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) Teaching assistants take on a variety of roles, from ensuring that students have nutritious meals in - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) The Education Committee has looked at the issue of persistent absence in school, and we have found that - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) nursery and primary workforce, 14% of the secondary workforce and 52% of the special school workforce.We - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) Of course, schools are free to set terms and conditions for teaching assistants and support staff according - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Industries (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Fri 07 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Rebuck (LAB - Life peer) under 50% were on free school meals. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LDEM - Life peer) There are 119 accountability measures that a state secondary must consider and, as I understand it, not - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (CON - Life peer) There is nothing stopping visionary secondary heads doing it but, of course, government can help. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) It might well help save further cuts to creative courses.On school education, the obstacle of the EBacc - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ultra-processed Food - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) Instead, we see highly aggressive campaigns selling us the dream of so-called delicious meals. - Speech Link
2: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Much of it will be familiar as junk food, but there are also plenty of organic, free-range and “ethical - Speech Link
3: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) weeks ago, in another debate, I pointed out that for many living in poverty, eating healthy food is a secondary - Speech Link
4: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) ending poverty, supporting fair wages, and improving physical and social environments, as well as public education - Speech Link
5: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) We are also putting in £330 million a year for school sport and the PE premium. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) We provide free school meals to more than one third of children in education and we have boosted our - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Expanding free school meals to all children in universal credit households is not controversial. - Speech Link
3: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) This Government spend more than £1 billion annually delivering free school meals to pupils in schools - Speech Link
4: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) rolls, and particularly in universal infant free school meals. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I know that he has had regular contact in all his ministerial roles—in Education and now in Health—and - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) For example, for many living in poverty, eating healthy food is a secondary consideration to just eating - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) I remember when I was the Children’s Minister and had responsibility for school sport: looking at school - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
National Carers Week - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) It is a never-ending round of jobs like cutting meals, making sure meds are taken, washing, appointments - Speech Link
2: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) pressures placed on the other NHS we have result in delays for unpaid carers in obtaining the primary and secondary - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (CON - Gosport) He never told his school about this because of the stigma attached to it; he felt deeply isolated and - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) They face difficulties with finances and accessing education. - Speech Link
5: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) Questions designed to identify children and students caring for family members have been added to the school - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children's Access to Books - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) Children on free school meals are not only much less likely to own books but are much less likely to - Speech Link
2: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) We need to place a heavy emphasis on the importance of having a library in all schools, not just secondary - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) As a former English teacher, I know that when the new S1—secondary 1—intake arrives, the first piece - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
National Numeracy Day - Thu 18 May 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) It is even more important, therefore, that those people have access to easy, supportive and free recourses - Speech Link
2: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) The figures are even worse for children on free school meals, fewer than half of whom are meeting expected - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cost of Living - Tue 16 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Douglas Ross (CON - Moray) Gentleman mentioned education. - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) Although we rhetorically describe these things as free, they are not free; they need to be paid for, - Speech Link
3: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) school meals to all primary and secondary pupils in Scotland; and, most importantly, writing off the - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) bus travel to under-22s, maintained free eye tests and provided free school meals for pupils in primary - Speech Link
5: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) There is also the Scottish child payment, the baby box, the free childcare extension, free school meals - Speech Link