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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Free School Meals and Child Poverty

"I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this Adjournment debate on such an important matter. As a former primary school teacher for many years, I know what she is saying: a child cannot learn if they are hungry in school. Does she agree that the announcement in today’s energy statement …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Free School Meals and Child Poverty

"I welcome the Minister to her position. Having worked with her on the transport brief at the start of the pandemic, I know that she will be diligent in the role.

Even though my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Kim Johnson) is a Liverpool fan, she mentioned Marcus …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. The brilliant Sale High School in my constituency is in desperate need of refurbishment. To that end, I have been working with local partners to put a deal on the table. With the help of the Minister in the other place, the deal went to the Department’s playing field …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Jun 2022
Children’s Education Recovery and Childcare Costs

"Are you Nick Gibb in disguise?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I cannot begin to describe how much Sale High School in my constituency needs a rebuild. There is a local financial solution on the table, which is being put at risk by Department for Education delays. Will the Minister commit to helping me bring this to a resolution today?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Careers Guidance in Schools

"I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship today, Ms Rees, and to follow my parliamentary neighbour, the right hon. Member for Tatton (Esther McVey). We share the second runway of Manchester airport; I could run from my end of it to her end of it, crossing the River Bollin …..."
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Written Question
Schools: Finance
Wednesday 4th March 2020

Asked by: Mike Kane (Labour - Wythenshawe and Sale East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have (a) been granted permission to move (i) up to 0.5 per cent, (ii) between 0.51 and 1 per cent and (iii) over 1 per cent of schools block funding to high needs block funding, (b) been denied permission to move schools block funding to high needs block funding and (c) made a request to move schools block funding to high needs block funding but no decision has yet been made; and what criteria his Department uses to determine those requests.

Answered by Nick Gibb

In total, 25 local authorities submitted a request to my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, to move schools block funding to high needs block funding. All schools block movement requests are reviewed against the criteria set out in paragraphs 261-286 of the ‘Schools revenue funding operational guide: 2020 to 2021’, which is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-16-schools-funding-local-authority-guidance-for-2020-to-2021.

Of these 25 requests, the following were granted permission to move funding from the schools block to the high needs block:

  • no requests to move up to 0.50%;
  • one request, from Kent County Council, to move between 0.51% and 1%; and
  • two requests, from Rotherham and South Gloucestershire local authorities, to move 1%.

The remaining 22 requests to move funding away from the schools block were denied.

All decisions have been made as advised in Table A.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Minister mentions 0.1%, but the Education Policy Institute found that there were 69,000 unexplained exits from school in 2017 alone. Does the Minister really believe that our schools are getting better when there is a crisis of more and more pupils leaving the system? The Minister has yet to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Feb 2020
School Admissions Process

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Buck. We have something in common. I was recruited to the Labour movement in the mid-1980s by someone who I think was a great mentor to both of us—Alf Morris, who was the MP for Wythenshawe between 1964 and 1997. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Feb 2020
School Admissions Process

"We are having a debate on admissions. I think the Minister has strayed some way off his brief. Perhaps his civil servants have given him the wrong speech today. Perhaps he could get back to addressing admissions...."
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