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HANSARDPost-16 Education: Skills Needed in the Economy6. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that post-16 education provides the necessary skills to support the economy.27 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyI thank the Secretary of State for her statement. I welcome the Government’s focus on further education and skills, which have been overlooked for far too long and are critical to…20 Oct 2025HANSARDSEND ProvisionMy Committee’s recent inquiry on SEND found that, although support from health services is critical in enabling many children with special educational needs and disabilities to…20 Oct 2025HANSARDEducational Assessment System ReformI congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate and on his speech. Does he agree that it is an unacceptable feature of our education system that around a third of…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeThis is why we are concerned that there should be a definition of inclusive education applying across a number of dimensions of the system, so that we can think about buildings…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeI thank the right hon. Member for his question, which is an important one. The evidence we saw in Ontario in Canada is that where parental involvement is embedded in the system,…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeAs Chair of the Education Committee, I am pleased to present to the House our fifth report of this Parliament, “Solving the SEND Crisis”. I thank the Backbench Business Committee…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeMy hon. Friend is right. As we made clear in our report, there are pockets of very good delivery—there are schools, local authorities and professionals across the system that are…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeI thank my hon. Friend for his question. It was a real pleasure to meet some of his constituents who came to Parliament to participate in a workshop and to present their findings…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeI thank the hon. Member for her question, for her participation in this inquiry and for the contributions she made to our report. What we saw in Canada showed us what is possible…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeThe hon. Member raises a devastating case, which is sadly not a unique example across the country. The pressures that families face as a consequence of this failing system cause…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeI thank my hon. Friend for her question and for her contribution to this report as a member of the Select Committee. The situation that we saw in Aylsham high was one where…13 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation CommitteeI know that my hon. Friend has extensive experience of this area, not least through his own family experience. I am really pleased to see Ministers and the Secretary of State from…13 Oct 2025HANSARDChildren with SEND: Assessments and SupportIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dr Huq. I thank everybody across the country who signed this important petition, and the Petitions Committee for granting time for the…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren with SEND: Assessments and SupportI will not give way again because of the time constraints. I will point to a few of the big themes that came through in our evidence, to which our report will speak. There are…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren with SEND: Assessments and SupportMy speech will turn to some of the points that the hon. Member raised. I will not give way to further interventions, because many Members want to speak and it would eat into their…15 Sept 2025HANSARD Accessibility of Railway Stations: Dulwich and West NorwoodI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I will come on to some of the points about the better co-ordination needed to solve some of these problems. We need an approach…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Accessibility of Railway Stations: Dulwich and West NorwoodMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that the figures cannot account for passengers who cannot access a station, and I welcome her campaign for the station in her…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Accessibility of Railway Stations: Dulwich and West NorwoodI am honoured to be intervened on in an Adjournment debate by the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), and I thank him for his intervention. He is right that adequate…09 Sept 2025HANSARD Accessibility of Railway Stations: Dulwich and West NorwoodI thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and for all his work on this important set of issues. He is absolutely right to say that full accessibility is about more than simply…09 Sept 2025