Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Review

Debate between James Wild and Nadhim Zahawi

Tuesday 29th March 2022 Commons Chamber

[James Wild (North West Norfolk) (Con)]

I know from visits to primary schools in my constituency—and the Green Paper underlines this—that the most common special need that people have in respect of speech and language therapy is access. Given the importance of communication skills to young people’s development, may I ask how the proposals in the Green Paper will improve access to those vital skills?

[Nadhim Zahawi]

As I have said, both yesterday and today, the combination of the schools White Paper and the parent pledge—whereby teachers identify gaps in reading, writing and speech and share that information with parents—will be the catalyst to ensure that early identification is working. Our work with the Department for Health and Social Care means we can create a system that, when it comes together, truly delivers for children and for parents.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Wild and Nadhim Zahawi

Tuesday 13th July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

The European Medicines Agency and our regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, work incredibly closely together, and the EMA has authorised the vaccines that are approved by the MHRA. All vaccines that are authorised and deployed in the UK have been subjected to rigorous checks, including individual batch testing and site inspection. Our two regulators work incredibly closely together and I am confident that we will continue to do so and ensure that any issues are resolved as quickly as possible, working with the manufacturers as well.

[James Wild (North West Norfolk) (Con)]

What progress his Department has made on selecting the eight new hospital programme schemes invited to bid for funding announced in the spending review 2020.