Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Peter Aldous

Monday 17th April 2023 Commons Chamber

[Nick Gibb]

Actually, we are spending £5 billion helping schools to tackle the disadvantage gap and help children catch up. We funded schools fully throughout the covid pandemic, and we provided over £400 billion of support to the UK economy and to families up and down the country during the covid crisis.

[Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)]

6. What steps her Department is taking to promote lifelong learning.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Peter Aldous

Monday 7th September 2020 Commons Chamber

[Nick Gibb]

I am very happy to meet the hon. Member. This was an issue that we discussed at great length with the regulator. We wanted to find a way in which those students could be awarded grades, notwithstanding the fact that the summer series had to be cancelled. However, for some students who do not have a relationship with a school, it was not possible for them to have centre-assessed grades. That is one of the reasons why we put on an autumn series of exams in all subjects across GCSEs, A-levels and AS-levels to ensure that they have the opportunity to take their exams this year.

[Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)]

The return to school is particularly challenging for those young people who are hard of hearing. Will my right hon. Friend congratulate Bungay High School, which has just opened a new specialist facility for students with hearing loss, and will he update one of those students, Daniel Jillings, whom he has met, on the development of the British Sign Language GCSE and assure him that it will not be delayed?