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HANSARDEducation (Careers Guidance in Schools) BillI am honoured to give way to my opposite number for the first time.27 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationThe challenges that we currently face are obviously substantial, but great improvements have been made. At the end of the previous term, attendance in school was at 75%; as of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationAs I have said a number of times, we have put in £3 billion, with £1.5 billion on tutoring for 6 million tutoring programmes—100 million hours of tutoring—and an additional 2…19 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationI thank my hon. Friend for his thoughtful question. We have been very clear throughout that we wanted to get schools open as soon as it was safe to do so. We have done that. We…19 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationI thank my hon. Friend for his thoughtful question. We have been very clear throughout that we wanted to get schools open as soon as it was safe to do so. We have done that. We…19 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationThe challenges that we currently face are obviously substantial, but great improvements have been made. At the end of the previous term, attendance in school was at 76.7% ; as of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDEducationAs I have said a number of times, we have put in £3 billion, with £1.5 billion on tutoring for 6 million tutoring courses —100 million hours of tutoring—and an additional 2…19 Oct 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI thank my right hon. Friend for his question, and I look forward to working with him in his role as Chair of the Education Committee and as a venerable defender of the needs of…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsMr Speaker, I am terribly grateful to you for granting this urgent question during my first week in the job. We would all like to thank school staff for their ongoing dedication…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI thank the hon. Lady for tabling the urgent question and for her opening remarks. I am sure we will not always see eye-to-eye, but we both have a great concern for children in…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI thank both the hon. Lady for her question and the school in her constituency for the work that it has done to look after its pupils; it sounds as though it has gone above and…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI thank my hon. Friend for his passionate question. He has first-hand experience of working in schools, and I look forward to leaning on his expertise while I am in this job. It…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsThe hon. Gentleman is a doughty defender of pupils on his patch. The Government have already spent £3 billion on helping schools to get through the pandemic. As I have said, we…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsMy hon. Friend is right that we have to help the most vulnerable children to overcome the problems of the pandemic. Children with special educational needs are very much on our…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI am delighted to hear that the Welsh Government are improving ventilation in schools. The Government in Westminster are doing precisely the same. We have spent £25 million on…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI could not agree more strongly. We need schools to be calm, well-ordered places of learning. These are the environments in which children flourish most. That is why, since 2010,…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsMy heart stopped for a moment because I thought the hon. Gentleman said that he looked forward to my appearing in front of the Education Committee this afternoon, but the autumn…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI thank my hon. Friend for his thoughtful question. We have been very clear throughout that we wanted to get schools open as soon as it was safe to do so. We have done that. We…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsI am afraid that I do not recognise the hon. Lady’s description of the national tutoring programme as such. It is based on the very best evidence, it has a very large sum of…23 Sept 2021HANSARDCoronavirus: Education Setting Attendance and Support for PupilsMy right hon. Friend is extremely learned in these matters. We have a testing programme in place to ensure that we limit the number of pupils in schools who have coronavirus. That…23 Sept 2021