Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Robert Halfon and Elliot Colburn

Monday 11th December 2023 Commons Chamber

[Robert Halfon]

Not content with being in the anti-apprenticeship party, given her plans to weaken the apprenticeship levy and halve the number of apprenticeships, the hon. Lady is also taking on the mantle of T-level denier. We have 18 T-levels; we have, as I mentioned, a 90.5% pass rate; we have 10,000 students doing our T-level programme; and we expect the data that we will release early next year to show that many thousands more students are doing the T-level programme. I am very proud of our T-level programme. I know that the hon. Lady will be eating mince pies at Christmas, but I suggest that early next year she may be eating humble pie, because our T-level programme is something to be proud of.

[Elliot Colburn (Carshalton and Wallington) (Con)]

7. If her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of after-school childcare on long-term educational outcomes.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Robert Halfon and Elliot Colburn

Tuesday 10th March 2020 Commons Chamber

[Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con)]

4. What progress he has made on new hospital projects.

[Elliot Colburn (Carshalton and Wallington) (Con)]

22. What steps he is taking to build new hospitals.

[The Minister for Health (Edward Argar)]

We have announced £2.7 billion of funding for six new hospital schemes under HIP1—the first tranche of the health infrastructure plan; and £100 million of seed funding for a further 21 schemes covering 34 hospitals under HIP2, ready to go to the next stage. That is 40 new hospitals in total.