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Tuesday 7th December 2021 9:30 a.m. Education Committee - Oral evidence Subject: The Government’s Catch-up programme At 10.00am: Oral evidence Professor Becky Francis - Chief Executive at Education Endowment Foundation David Laws - Executive Chairman at Education Policy Institute Nick Bent - Co-Founder and Chief Executive at The Tutor Trust View calendar

Parliamentary Debates
Somerset Council: Funding and Governance 29 speeches (8,602 words) Tuesday 30th January 2024 - Westminster Hall Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Marcus Fysh (Con - Yeovil) The coalition made the decision—indeed, my predecessor as the Member for Yeovil, David Laws, was the - Link to Speech 2: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) We made representations then and I do not remember being completely supported by David Laws, David Heath - Link to Speech
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower 128 speeches (42,786 words) Thursday 9th November 2023 - Commons Chamber Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Mentions: 1: Edward Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) What I actually said—it comes from David Laws’ memoirs—was that it was pie in the sky to say we could - Link to Speech 2: Edward Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) I will read from David Laws’ memoirs. - Link to Speech
Children's Access to Books 37 speeches (13,586 words) Tuesday 6th June 2023 - Westminster Hall Department for Education Mentions: 1: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) Many years ago, when the then schools Minister David Laws visited a school in a challenging area in my - Link to Speech
Childcare: Affordability and Availability 43 speeches (12,462 words) Tuesday 21st February 2023 - Westminster Hall Department for Education Mentions: 1: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) Lady’s party, David Laws, who was Minister for schools and early years. - Link to Speech
Department for Education 52 speeches (14,262 words) Wednesday 6th July 2022 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) David Laws from the Education Policy Institute told our Committee of his concerns that vulnerable groups - Link to Speech
Children’s Education Recovery and Childcare Costs 105 speeches (28,880 words) Tuesday 7th June 2022 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I certainly remember being in the room with David Laws—then Education Minister, and someone for whom - Link to Speech
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill 14 speeches (3,039 words) Consideration of Commons amendments Tuesday 22nd March 2022 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Fixed-term Parliaments Act was cobbled together in back rooms, as we learn about in the memoirs of Mr David - Link to Speech
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill 65 speeches (34,534 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 30th November 2021 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) David Laws, in his book 22 Days in May, says it all:“William Hague and George Osborne indicated that - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Thursday 13th July 2023 Oral Evidence - HM Government, Department for Education, and Department for Education Education for 11 to 16 year olds - Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee Found: Nick Gibb: It was introduced by my successor, David Laws, who was Schools Minister at the time.
Thursday 10th March 2022 Inquiry Publications - Fourth Report - Is the Catch-up Programme fit for purpose? The Government’s Catch-up programme - Education Committee Found: David Laws also said: What we are not able to do due to sample size is robustly measure whether there
Thursday 9th December 2021 Oral Evidence - Professor Becky Francis (Chief Executive at Education Endowment Foundation), David Laws (Executive Chairman at Education Policy Institute), and Nick Bent (Co-Founder and Chief Executive at The Tutor Trust) Education Endowment Foundation, Education Policy Institute, and The Tutor Trust The Government’s Catch-up programme - Education Committee Found: Institute, and The Tutor Trust Professor Becky Francis (Chief Executive at Education Endowment Foundation), David
Tuesday 25th May 2021 Oral Evidence - British Horseracing Authority, World Horse Welfare, and Jan Rogers (Director of Research and Policy at The Horse Trust) British Horseracing Authority, World Horse Welfare, and The Horse Trust Moving animals across borders - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: That is really helpful, David.
Tuesday 25th May 2021 Oral Evidence - Dogs Trust, Cats Protection, and RSPCA Dogs Trust, Cats Protection, and RSPCA Moving animals across borders - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: That is really helpful, David.
Wednesday 24th March 2021 Inquiry Publications - Report Fixed-Term Parliaments Act - Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act Found: Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on 20 July 2020, HC 167, Q131Œ33 [Mark Harper]; See also David
Wednesday 27th January 2021 Oral Evidence - The Rt Hon Lord Maude of Horsham The Rt Hon Lord Maude of Horsham The work of the Cabinet Office - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Found: I think the way David Laws put it—he was Chief Secretary when we introduced it —is tha t it was to
Tuesday 21st July 2020 Inquiry Publications - Seventh Report: Sanctions in respect of the conduct of Members Sanctions - Committee on Standards Found: 18th Report 2010Œ12] Misuse of stationery for party uses [might have been recti˜ed] Written apology David
Wednesday 3rd June 2020 Oral Evidence - 3 June 2020 The impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services - Education Committee Found: David Laws: Do you want me to start on that?
Tuesday 5th May 2020 Written Evidence - Robert Craig FTP0010 - The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Found: As David Laws reveals in his book (22 Days in May) this goal was to be achieved by requiring 55% of MPs
Sunday 2nd February 2020 Oral Evidence - Lord Butler of Brockwell, and Lord Lisvane Lord Butler of Brockwell, and Lord Lisvane Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 - Constitution Committee Found: Reading David Laws™s book 22 Days in May, it seems to have been a slightly arbitrary figure which probably

Select Committee Inquiry
16 Jul 2014 Government Consultation Practice Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (Select) Not accepting submissions The House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has launched an inquiry into Government consultation practice. In this inquiry, the committee will look at three sets of Regulations, from three different Departments as case studies of Government consultation practice. Timeline Interested parties were invited to submit written evidence by 30 September. On 18 November the Committee took oral evidence from the Rt Hon. David Laws MP, Minister of State for Education, and Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education, in relation to the consultation processes conducted by the Department for Education for the School Premises (England) Regulations 2012 and the Education (Independent Schools Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014. On 9 December* the Committee took oral evidence from Rt Hon. Oliver Letwin MP, Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office.*

Select Committee Inquiry

16 Jul 2014
Government Consultation Practice
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (Select)
Not accepting submissions

The House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has launched an inquiry into Government consultation practice. In this inquiry, the committee will look at three sets of Regulations, from three different Departments as case studies of Government consultation practice.

Timeline

Interested parties were invited to submit written evidence by 30 September.

On 18 November the Committee took oral evidence from the Rt Hon. David Laws MP, Minister of State for Education, and Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education, in relation to the consultation processes conducted by the Department for Education for the School Premises (England) Regulations 2012 and the Education (Independent Schools Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.

On 9 December the Committee took oral evidence from Rt Hon. Oliver Letwin MP, Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office.

Tweets
Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove) - @peterkyle Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology 12 Oct 2021, 6:14 p.m. David Laws of the @EduPolicyInst sets out the education crisis very well in the @FT: “The government is in danger of sleepwalking into a spending review in which educational recovery is relegated to a footnote.” https://t.co/5FLXA7PKHd Link to Original Tweet
Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn) - @TulipSiddiq Shadow Minister (Treasury) 28 Sep 2021, 5:32 p.m. Interesting discussion at #Lab21 yesterday with @peterkyle, @RealGeoffBarton, Children's Commissioner @Rachel_deSouza, Sophie Harrison-Byrne & David Laws on boosting school collaboration to improve outcomes for children. Thanks @EduPolicyInst & @ASCL_UK for hosting. https://t.co/z7oBeSiIo2 Link to Original Tweet
Guy Opperman (Conservative - Hexham) - @GuyOpperman Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) 24 Sep 2021, 7:04 a.m. It has been a long journey - see my pic with Education Minister David Laws in July 2013 at @QEHSHexham! But the initial pledge of £10 million + funding from Coalition govt, and the vision of @michaelgove, of a new flagship school in #Hexham was key. Massive thanks ? https://t.co/4czWEyun60 Link to Original Tweet
Open Public Services - @OPS_HMG 17 Mar 2014, 5:12 p.m. David Laws MP: Ministers are behind the Open Public Services agenda @CommonsPASC #OPS2014 Link to Original Tweet

Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Jan. 26 2023 Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration Source Page: Role and remit review of ICIBI discontinued Document: Windrush Lessons Learned Review (PDF) News and Communications Found: On 14 March 2013, the Prime Minister’s Private Secretary wrote to David Laws (Minister of State at the

Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
May. 31 2022 Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests Source Page: List of ministers' interests Document: List of ministers' interests - October 2013 (PDF) Transparency Found: Rt Hon David Laws MP, Minister of State See entry under Department for Education.