Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Robert Courts

Monday 29th April 2019 Commons Chamber

[Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)]

Will Ministers join me in congratulating Queen Emma’s Primary School in Witney on its recent Ofsted success, and will they join me in noting that it is the school’s use of phonics combined with a broad, attractive curriculum that is providing an outstanding education for the children of Witney at primary, secondary and beyond?

[Nick Gibb]

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Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Robert Courts

Monday 25th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Nick Gibb]

If the hon. Gentleman looks at the national figures, he will find that, at primary, something like 97% of families received an offer of a place in one of their top-three schools, with 91% offered their first choice. At secondary, 94% of families received an offer of a place at their first-choice school. We have created 825,000 school places since 2010, following on from a Labour Government who actually cut 100,000 school places from the system.

[Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)]

T5. Hard-working teachers in small rural schools in places like West Oxfordshire are ingenious in wringing every last penny of value out of their budgets, but what are Ministers doing to ensure those schools have the funding they need to thrive?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Robert Courts

Monday 14th May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)]

West Oxfordshire schools are frequently small and rural. What is being done to help them?

[Nick Gibb]

My hon. Friend will know that the national funding formula contains a sparsity allocation of more than £20 million for schools in rural areas, particularly small schools, to help to deal with the problem he has rightly highlighted.