Written Question
Friday 1st August 2025
Asked by:
Antonia Bance (Labour - Tipton and Wednesbury)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state schools are taking part in the Early Language Support for Every Child Programme by (a) local authority and (b) constituency.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
- Minister of State (Education)
A list of state schools that have taken part in the Early Language Support for Every Child programme up to the end of June 2025 is provided. Please note that as this is a pupil-led and not school-led programme, a small number of schools may have engaged in the programme during the last few weeks of the 2024/25 academic year in July, and we are awaiting an updated list from one of the nine pathfinder areas, the East Midlands, which covers the Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland local authority areas. A further list will therefore be provided by the end of August 2025 capturing this information.
Written Question
Friday 1st August 2025
Asked by:
Antonia Bance (Labour - Tipton and Wednesbury)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state schools took part in the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools programme in the most recent financial year by (a) local authority and (b) constituency.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
- Minister of State (Education)
State schools that took part in the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools programme in the 2024/25 financial year by (a) local authority and (b) constituency is available in the attached table.
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Westminster Hall debate - Westminster Hall
Black Country Day
MP:
Antonia Bance
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"I beg to move,
That this House has considered Black Country Day.
What a pleasure it is to serve under your chairship, Ms Vaz! As the Black Country MP for Walsall and Bloxwich, you know how important the subject of the debate is and will, I am sure, give it …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"I absolutely agree with the hon. Member. It is so important that each of our areas is celebrated for what they are—what they are now, what they have been and what they could be—and that we take note of the diversity of each of our areas.
This United Kingdom is …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"Having recently run a competition for the best orange chips in Tipton and Wednesbury, I have great experience of sampling the double-battered delicacy—oh yes, we are talking about chips that then return to the batter and are deep-fried a second time. It was very hard to choose a winner for …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"As a proud Black Country MP, it is good to see the right hon. Member in her place today. I thank her for the intervention, but I am afraid I cannot agree. Much of my constituency is brownfield land. It is right that we look to use brownfield land first …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"Absolutely. I thank my hon. Friend, one of my constituency neighbours, for his intervention. It was a difficult day when we all stood here in Westminster Hall debating the future of the automotive industry under the tariffs from the United States. I thank my colleagues at the Department for Business …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"Was my hon. Friend, like me, pleased to see our West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker’s new growth strategy, which was published yesterday? It explicitly identifies a number of the industrial strategy sectors, particularly the defence sector, as areas of potential growth in the Black Country...."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Black Country Day
"Does the hon. Member recognise that a number of our Black Country local authorities have, over the past 15 years, lost hundreds of millions of pounds of local government funding, which has led to the diminution of local government services, the closure of libraries and Sure Starts, the creation of …..."Antonia Bance - View Speech
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