Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Huw Merriman and Nadhim Zahawi

Monday 4th July 2022 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. We will wait to see the work of the pay review bodies. We have submitted our recommendation, and we will wait to hear what they say about it.

[Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con)]

At a roundtable at Heathfield Community College last week, the Secretary of State’s adviser and I heard a number of great ideas from a group of headteachers and governors. One was that there is surely a need for the proposed parents’ pledge, to outline not only what parents can expect from teachers but what teachers can expect from parents. Would that idea help us to help teachers teach?

Education

Debate between Huw Merriman and Nadhim Zahawi

Thursday 21st March 2019 Ministerial Corrections

[Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con)]

Two of my childcare providers have closed, citing the requirement to pay business rates as the final nail for them. In Scotland and Wales, private childcare providers are not charged business rates. Will the Minister look to see what can be done, because it surely cannot be right that we tax space which is beautiful for young people to grow and be nurtured in?

[Nadhim Zahawi]

To my knowledge, two local authorities have done the same thing in England, and I urge other local authorities to look into what they can do to help childcare providers to cope with business rates.

[Official Report, 4 February 2019, Vol. 654, c. 17.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Education, the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi):

An error has been identified in the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman).

The correct response should have been:

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Huw Merriman and Nadhim Zahawi

Monday 4th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I will happily meet the hon. Lady, and even join her, if my diary permits, to have a look at that work. I have seen many local authorities throughout the country deliver outreach programmes to the most disadvantaged families, who actually do not necessarily tend to come into bricks-and-mortar buildings. There are models that deliver a better outcome for those families than just investing in bricks and mortar.

[Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con)]

Two of my childcare providers have closed, citing the requirement to pay business rates as the final nail for them. In Scotland and Wales, private childcare providers are not charged business rates. Will the Minister look to see what can be done, because it surely cannot be right that we tax space which is beautiful for young people to grow and be nurtured in?

[Nadhim Zahawi]

To my knowledge, two local authorities have done the same thing in England, and I urge other local authorities to look into what they can do to help childcare providers to cope with business rates.[Official Report, 21 March 2019, Vol. 656, c. 9MC.]