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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Before the election, Labour said that it would allow employers to take 50% of their apprenticeship levy money and spend it on other things, but since the a while election, different Ministers have said different things about whether that is still happening. The Skills Minister said it would all depend …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Parents are getting in touch with MPs across the country to ask whether existing special needs support will continue under the planned reforms. The Minister for School Standards has said that the Government will not remove “effective support”, but what does that word “effective” mean? Who will judge what is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State just said that the Government were turning around declines in teacher numbers. Under the last Government the number of teachers went up by 27,000; under this Government it is down by 400. That is the opposite of the truth.

One thing that drives people out of …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Yes or no?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"Everybody wants to give children the best start in life. That is why we increased spending per pupil in schools by 11% in real terms in the last Parliament, and why we doubled real-terms spending on the free entitlement for the early years. More importantly, it is why we pushed …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"The hon. Gentleman is completely right, and it is not the first time—it is generally the case that no one from Reform is present. On this issue, I am afraid that Reform MPs are chronically absent, as we say in education.

I will continue with my theme. The Institute for …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"I am happy to take an intervention...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"I do not think that is true. Looking at the evidence pack produced by the Government’s curriculum review, it is clear that some of the arguments are overstated. It is true that we reversed the decline in the number of young people taking double and triple science; that had been …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"I am very grateful to be put right back in my box by Madam Deputy Speaker, and rightly so.

I would not fund that by increasing taxes on low income workers by £25 billion. That means that someone who is earning £13,000 a year loses £500. It means someone earning …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"There are several things to say about that. The first is that the overall number went up: the hon. Gentleman said that some were leaving, but the overall number went up by 27,000. He makes a good point about early career teachers and that is why we put in the …..."
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