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HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe hon. Gentleman is always helpful and thoughtful in his contributions. As a Department, we inherited a school system that was in crisis: school buildings crumbling, teachers…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsMay I start by thanking our teachers, school leaders and school staff for all they are doing right now to ensure a successful exam season for students, and indeed for all their…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsAs I have already set out, the Government have given a significant settlement in recognition of the national insurance costs. We will continue to work with schools to ensure that…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendationsindicated dissent.22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsWhat a ridiculous question. As the hon. Member has a family member who is a teacher, he should have more respect for the profession and the work that teachers do. He should…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe hon. Gentleman raises an important matter and does so thoughtfully and constructively. Although there is synthetic outrage from some Members on the Conservative Benches, we…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThis is a key priority for us. We want to ensure that we have the teaching workforce that children deserve, but that teachers deserve, too—they deserve to have a full fleet of…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe written ministerial statement is laid before the House and will be coming out this afternoon, showing once again that this Labour Government are getting on and delivering on…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI recognise the challenges that the hon. Gentleman sees in the school system. We did, without doubt, inherit a SEND crisis. It was described by the previous Secretary of State for…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsMy hon. Friend tempts me down all sorts of paths, in ways that would anticipate the statement that is due later today, but he rightly states the importance of ensuring that…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI am afraid that the right hon. Member will have to wait for the statement this afternoon. I appreciate that it is keenly anticipated. We are committed to ensuring that schools…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsMy hon. Friend speaks with great insight; I know she cares passionately about maximising outcomes for children. I know that every school leader—indeed, those at any level within a…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsMy hon. Friend is right to say that we inherited a teaching profession in crisis. Immediately on entering Government, we instituted a 5.5% pay award. We continue to help schools…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful question and for his years of service as a governor. I cannot reiterate enough how much we value the work that governors do in…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI welcome the constructive nature of my hon. Friend’s question, because regardless of any announcement this afternoon, we know that schools are working hard to deliver for…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThere was an awful lot of imagining in the hon. Lady’s question, and understandably so—less understandable, though, in relation to some of her comments. The statement is due…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI thank my hon. Friend for her thoughtful contribution. I find it somewhat disconcerting that she is being barracked by Conservative Members, when she performs a really important…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsWe did inherit a dire situation. Children were not being taught by the expert teachers they should have been taught by, and teachers were stretched to the limit. That is why the…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe right hon. Gentleman is rather getting ahead of himself. He was in the last Government, and we were left with an appalling inheritance. We are taking tough decisions to fix…22 May 2025HANSARD School Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsI think my hon. Friend has put it very well.22 May 2025