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HANSARDTutoring ProvisionIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mrs Cummins. I thank the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) for securing this important debate today. I also thank everybody who…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionWould she let me get going? No, sorry; go ahead.19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionIt was in every party’s manifesto.19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionLet us not pursue the thing about the pupil premium. That happened to be in both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat plans for Government ahead of 2010. The two parties worked…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionIt is absolutely appropriate to embed tutoring into schools’ wider progress, because we know from our gold standard analyser the EEF and other studies that that approach has…19 Mar 2024HANSARDTutoring ProvisionOn the subject of funding, including the pupil premium and the recently announced additional amounts for covering pension contributions, overall school funding next year will be…19 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentIt is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Dowd—in my case, for the first time—and a pleasure to be here for this well-attended debate in Westminster Hall. I thank my hon.…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI am not a lawyer; I will not start commenting on commercial contracts. However, in any circumstances, if a parent wants to see what their child is seeing in relationships and sex…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentIn my experience, schools do listen. They want to listen, and they want to be in communion with their community and the parents at the school. I am not in the business of trying…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentIt has, and later in my remarks I will come on to this very matter. As I was saying, the statutory guidance is clear that it is for schools to decide the point in their pupils’…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentI recognise that there are questions around training. In truth, it is also the case that we cannot just say, “If only there was more training then none of these issues would…18 Mar 2024HANSARDRelationships Education: LGBT ContentWe think it is a good thing that there is a diversity of material to support all subjects. I mentioned that some religious organisations, for example, produce materials to support…18 Mar 2024HANSARDPSHE Curriculum: Economic EducationIt is essential that young people are equipped to make important financial decisions later in life. My hon. Friend will recall our curriculum reforms, and the national curriculum…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingIn 2010-11, school funding was £35 billion. Next year, it will be £59.6 billion. That is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil.11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingOn the condition of school buildings, the hon. Lady will know that there is £1.8 billion-worth of capital for maintaining and improving school buildings. On the broader questions…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingI absolutely agree that tutoring is important in multiple contexts. In particular, in the years since the pandemic it has played an essential part. I will add that tutoring by…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingI absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Lady on the central importance of that support and how vital it is to have it. There are, of course, many more EHCPs than there…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingAs ever, my right hon. Friend is a great champion and advocate for Barnet’s schools and, indeed, for maintained nursery schools, which, as she says, play a unique role in our…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMaintained Schools FundingKeeping our school estates in the right condition for optimally educating children is of the foremost importance. Since 2015 we have allocated £15 billion to keeping schools safe…11 Mar 2024HANSARDPSHE Curriculum: Economic EducationI agree with my hon. Friend. There is relevant content in different parts of the curriculum, not only in mathematics, which is statutory throughout key stages 1 to 4, but at…11 Mar 2024