All 2 Debates between Nick Gibb and Lucy Allan

Thu 19th May 2016

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Lucy Allan
Monday 14th May 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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Actually, Progress 8 carries widespread support in the sector. It is a far better method of assessing schools than the previous method—five or more GCSEs of A* to C—because it measures progress and takes into account the starting point of pupils when they start secondary school. We think it is a good measure. We are looking at some of the details of the outliers when we calculate Progress 8, and we will have more to say on that in due course.

Lucy Allan Portrait Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con)
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T4. The Minister will have read the Education Committee’s report on the Government’s Green Paper on children’s mental health. Does the Minister agree with the Committee that there needs to be specific, distinct proposals to enable looked-after children to access mental health services?

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Debate between Nick Gibb and Lucy Allan
Thursday 19th May 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Gibb Portrait Mr Gibb
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The hon. Gentleman, for whom I have huge admiration for his work as the former chair of the Education Committee, is right. We need to look at these issues in a more fundamental way. That is why we have given academies the freedom to set their term dates. I say to the hon. Gentleman and, indeed, to my hon. Friend the Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double) that they should be helping to co-ordinate schools so that they set different term dates that help their own tourism industries.

Lucy Allan Portrait Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con)
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Does the Minister agree that educational attainment is directly correlated to attendance and that narrowing the attainment gap and raising standards must be a priority for any Government who care about the future of our children?