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HANSARDLooked-after Children: Out-of-area PlacementsI thank the Minister for her response and I am sure she agrees that we should ensure that such a scandal cannot happen again. At the last election, as she mentioned, both parties…20 Jan 2020HANSARDLooked-after Children: Out-of-area PlacementsOne of the most important responsibilities of Government is to protect and support children in care. However, we now know that, over a decade ago, there was a terrible failure to…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentI commend my hon. Friend for the work he has done since coming into the House to ensure that we have a great universal youth service. What the Government have done to our youth…14 Jan 2020HANSARDEducation and Local GovernmentLet me welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. I also welcome the new Members to the Chamber for today’s debate. We look forward to hearing some fantastic maiden speeches, so…14 Jan 2020HANSARDPublic ServicesI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, who makes another important point: the curriculum, and what has happened to it. Many teachers and schools are very concerned about the fact…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, but I also urge the Government to look at what is happening in our schools today. That money is not even going to our schools today. Our…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesI shall say more about this later in my speech, but the hon. Gentleman and other Conservative Members should look at what has happened in schools since 2010. The Prime Minister…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesEveryone has heard what the Home Secretary has just said, but the truth is—my understanding is—that the Home Secretary was part of that book and the author of that book. If she…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesI absolutely agree with the hon. Lady, who has a wealth of knowledge from being an educator. She has also been an advocate for ensuring that, rather than hoodwinking teachers and…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesAbsolutely. There is a majority across the House to ensure that we push forward with this important legislation and support teachers and heads in delivering it in our schools. We…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesAll I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that he needs to get out more. The Secretary of State’s predecessors, and even the former Prime Minister, have now admitted that the…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesLet me welcome the Home Secretary and the whole House back after the conference season. I echo her words regarding supporting our police. They do an absolutely fantastic job…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Conservative Members might laugh, but the spiralling cost of school uniforms and the problems that the poorest in our society face in…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and nobody can move away from the fact that our schools face a tremendous burden from the pressures of the cuts and the additional costs that…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesConservative Members need not scaremonger, because the only thing that schools across England fear is more austerity and more broken promises from the Conservative party. Let me…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesThe Conservative party is very good at trying to do spin, but everybody knows that a Labour Government will invest in our public services and our police. They also know that you…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesThe reason for the tone of my speech and for my upset is the Prime Minister describing my constituents as “letterboxes”, and then my constituents suffer racism on our streets.…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPublic ServicesMy hon. Friend has made an important point. Although increased funding is welcomed by many schools, it will do nothing to reverse the cuts that they face. Moreover, they will not…16 Oct 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Tertiary EducationWell, I am sure that the Secretary of State would like me to shut up and go away, but I am not going to do that. He has to try harder with his answers. Will he publish officially…09 Sept 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: Tertiary EducationWell, well, well. The Secretary of State has had quite a start. Rumour has it that he forgot to appoint a Skills Minister, and we are now waiting for our fifth Higher Education…09 Sept 2019