Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and Rebecca Pow

Monday 25th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

We are looking at different groups and the proportion of those being excluded, which I hope will come out through the Timpson exclusions review. We are also talking to Ofsted about the issue of off-rolling.

[Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con)]

Some 1.4 million children in this country display some kind of speech, language or communication disorder. That is 10% of children, as was highlighted recently in the excellent Bercow report, the second one on this. Given that children entering school with lower than expected communication skills tend to do less well academically and feature more highly among excluded children and young offenders, can the Minister give an indication of how the recommendations in the Bercow report might be implemented in our education system?

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I spoke at the launch of the—