Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and Paula Sherriff

Monday 12th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

We will certainly give that point special consideration. We are working with the sector to look at the additional value that it provides, and I thank all local authorities who are helping us with the work to look at the economic model before the SR.

[Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury) (Lab)]

There was not a single penny in the Budget for further education—a sector that has lost a quarter of its funding since 2010. What does the Minister say to Greenhead College, which serves my constituency and has written to me to say that it fears it will not be able to provide the education that our young people deserve if cuts continue?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and Paula Sherriff

Monday 10th September 2018 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

NAAS is progressing extremely well. In early results, it has had a satisfaction rating of something like 86% for those very excellent social workers who have been through the system, and we look to continue that success.

[Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury) (Lab)]

T10. The Government have pledged to train a teacher in every school in mental health first aid. Identification is one thing, but provision is another, and in some areas the provision of mental health support is absolutely dismal, particularly for children and adolescents. Will the Secretary of State therefore today pledge to match Labour’s election promise of placing a counsellor in every high school?