Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Debate between Sarah Smith and Nick Timothy

Wednesday 8th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Nick Timothy]

I share my right hon. Friend’s admiration for the speech given by the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh). It was incredibly powerful and I hope Members on the Labour Front Bench listened closely to what she said, even if they are not listening to me right now—they are looking at their phones. The Government have made a deliberate decision to dismantle everything that has worked.

[Sarah Smith (Hyndburn) (Lab)]

How does the hon. Gentleman respond to the situation under the current system, whereby a third of young people fail to get a good GCSE in English and maths, and we have the most unhappy young people in the OECD?