Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Bim Afolami Excerpts
Monday 12th November 2018

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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We do, of course, appreciate the particular and special role that maintained nurseries play in the system. We have funding up to 2020, as he knows, and we need to look at what happens thereafter.

Bim Afolami Portrait Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden) (Con)
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19. The Secretary of State will be fully aware that the high-needs budget affects certain areas more than others. In Hertfordshire in particular there is concern among many teachers and parents that the system just is not working well enough for them. What comfort can he give to my parents and teachers who feel that the provision for children with special needs is not working well enough at the moment?