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HANSARDMental Resilience in Young People: Sports and PEIt is well and widely recognised that PE and sport support children and young people’s health and general wellbeing. The school sport and activity action plan update, published in…29 Apr 2024HANSARDIsrael and Antisemitism: Secondary School EducationI appreciate what my hon. Friend says. History is a very important subject for many reasons. Learning about Israel and the wider region can be covered in history, for example in…29 Apr 2024HANSARDMental Resilience in Young People: Sports and PEI know about the good work of the Golf Foundation, under the leadership of Brendon Pyle. I would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss its work, specifically the Unleash…29 Apr 2024HANSARDIsrael and Antisemitism: Secondary School EducationI have been horrified and appalled to see the rise in antisemitism in education since 7 October. It is unacceptable and it cannot be tolerated. My right hon. Friend the Secretary…29 Apr 2024HANSARDHanwood Park Free SchoolI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. I thank him for his ongoing support for this new school, including his personal work to make sure that there is provision for…29 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend issues a timely and important reminder and we are very clear on that with schools. We also, of course, part-fund Educate Against Hate, which has materials…29 Apr 2024HANSARDSchool Budgets since 2010I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question, but I am afraid there is a flawed premise within it. School funding is, at £60.7 billion, the highest it has ever been in real…29 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will indeed do that. My hon. Friend has brought up this subject with me and with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. There was that meeting with Mr Hardy on Friday. I…29 Apr 2024HANSARDSchool Budgets since 2010My hon. Friend is exactly correct. If the Labour party got into government, there would be a hike in the cost of going to private schools, which would push a number of families…29 Apr 2024HANSARDIsrael and Antisemitism: Secondary School EducationI always value opportunities to speak to colleagues and counterparts in the devolved Administrations. I believe that we will have another opportunity relatively soon to speak to…29 Apr 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Additional Financial Support for PupilsI appreciate what the hon. Lady says, but I am afraid she needs to keep up: we have done the things that restrict the cost pressures on uniforms. We regularly survey how much…29 Apr 2024HANSARDCost of Living: Additional Financial Support for PupilsMinisters normally meet colleagues from the devolved Governments, as we were just discussing a moment ago. The Education Ministers Council was due to be hosted by the Scottish…29 Apr 2024HANSARDIsrael and Antisemitism: Secondary School EducationThe hon. Lady is right to call out the wickedness of Islamophobia. There have been Islamophobic incidents in schools as well, and Tell MAMA is an important resource in that…29 Apr 2024HANSARDMental Resilience in Young People: Sports and PEThe hon. Gentleman has been entirely consistent for some time in talking about the importance of outdoor education, about which I am happy to agree. I am not sure it is always…29 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI should be happy to. We want all children to reach their full potential.20 Mar 2024HANSARDMusic EducationI congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton North (Sir Michael Ellis) on securing a debate on this important subject, and on what is an unusually…19 Mar 2024HANSARDMusic EducationI echo my hon. Friend’s words about the power of music, and I join him in paying tribute to the great work of NMPAT. I do not have the statistics at my fingertips to assess where…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionWill the hon. Lady give way?19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionI will speak in a moment. I just wondered whether the hon. Lady is committing, in the event of her party coming into government, to having a separate line item for the tutoring…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionIt will not be long until there is a general election. We do not know exactly when, but there will be a general election at some point in the months to come. If the hon. Lady is…19 Mar 2024