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HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022Absolutely. I am very happy to confirm that schools have and will have the testing capacity that they need.15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I am very grateful to you for granting this urgent question on a day when the Schools Minister is out of town, Mr Speaker. The Government are committed to ensuring that schools…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I thank my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee on Education, for his question. I know how much the subject means to him, and I am sure he recognises how much it…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I thank my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), the former Children’s Minister, for his remarks. We are absolutely determined to do everything…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I join the hon. Gentleman in his remarks about schools and school staff. We understand that they have worked enormously hard to do the best for children in extremely difficult…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022The hon. Gentleman obviously has enormous expertise in this field, as former Chair of the Education Committee. I reassure him that the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I thank my hon. Friend for her remarks. She is a very powerful advocate for the position she has just set out. I repeat what the Secretary of State said at the weekend: he is…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Openings: January 2022I thank my right hon. Friend for his question. He is an experienced Member of this House and he will know that Under-Secretaries of State are not always informed of what is…15 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)Who knows? Perhaps it will be the last. It has been a pleasure to hear a debate of this quality, to enjoy Opposition Members’ paeans to the heady days of Thatcherism when there…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)Clause 22 is important in ensuring that a funding authority is prevented from entering funding arrangements with a provider that is not on the list. It also makes sure that the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)Amendment 50 would require the Secretary of State to publish a review of student maintenance entitlements, to be conducted annually, I believe. We agree wholeheartedly with the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I believe we will come later in the debate to another clause that treats the subject of Sharia, and I will be happy to address the hon. Lady’s point then. It is something that the…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)On a point of order, Mrs Miller. I hope you will indulge me for a few moments so that I can thank you and Mr Efford for the way in which you have shepherded us through these six…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)New clause 5, tabled by the hon. Member for Rotherham, seeks to require the Secretary of State to undertake a national review and have a plan for addressing the attainment gap…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss sharia-compliant student finance. The Government have been considering an alternative student finance product, compatible with Islamic…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)As we have made clear throughout the Bill, the Government are on a mission to create an employer-led system in which the provision of skills reflects the skills that employers in…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)The Government agree that many learners need to access courses in a more flexible way to fit their study around work, family and personal commitments, and to retrain as their…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 19, page 22, line 34, leave out subsection (3). This amendment leaves out clause 19(3) of the Bill (regulations about courses of initial…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)We can all agree that it is vital for teachers to be trained to identify and respond to the needs of all their learners. That must include those with special educational needs and…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)It is important that the further education sector has enough suitably trained teachers to deliver the high-quality outcomes all learners deserve and that we all want to see. That…07 Dec 2021