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HANSARDBuses: FundingBus services in Stoke-on-Trent have halved since 2009-10, in large part due to covid, as has been reported by Richard Price, the local democracy reporter for The Sentinel . Of…17 May 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe people of Longport and Burslem, as well as the people of Porthill in the neighbouring constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Aaron Bell), are…17 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsT4. I have raised before in the House the case of Sharlotte-Sky, a six-year-old girl who tragically lost her life in Norton Green when her killer was driving his vehicle while…16 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI give way to my hon. Friend and then I will happily come on to the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan).09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I congratulate the hon. Member for Coventry South (Zarah Sultana) on securing this important debate. I, too, echo…09 May 2023HANSARDTax System: FairnessOne of the best ways to ensure fairness in the tax system is to let people keep more of their hard-earned money. Last summer, the Prime Minister outlined a plan that would cut the…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her fantastic intervention. Of course, her area faces challenges different from those faced by the city of Stoke-on-Trent, given that hers is a…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsIt is important to remember that there are far fewer young people in those areas than there are in England. I do not support the hon. Lady’s campaign, and I will say clearly why.…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsIt is—fantastic! I am glad to know I got the right place. Those are the types of areas that can offer something unique—something to put on the job advert that says to people why…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsAt the Conservative party conference last year, I sat next to my hon. Friend, who is a fantastic champion of the T-level programme. The Minister—I served on the Education…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsIn fact, we had a 5.1% increase in per-pupil funding at Kidsgrove Primary School. That is an astonishing increase. It will make a massive difference to the school, which…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsThe hon. Gentleman referred to the teaching unions and to teachers. Does he agree it was wrong of the leadership of the National Education Union to instruct teachers not to assess…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsThe hon. Gentleman has outlined, fairly so, that if Labour was in government, it would recruit an extra 6,500 teachers, having put VAT on private school fees. I mentioned non-doms…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me the opportunity to repeat the fact from the IFS that, in England, spending kept pace with the 13% rise in pupil numbers between…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI am sure that the hon. Member would never want to mislead this Chamber, and I accept that there was probably a mistake there. I think that I was perfectly clear when I said that,…09 May 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsDay one on the job and Labour in Stoke-on-Trent talk about cancelling the £56 million of levelling-up funding, which is UK-leading, going to the great city of Stoke-on-Trent. Will…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsThank you very much, Mr Pritchard; yes, I am happy to go back to the funding that has been so important to our local area. We are lucky that the schools in Stoke-on-Trent are…09 May 2023HANSARD School and College Funding: The MidlandsI must tell the hon. Lady that in all my time in the teaching profession—and I was a head of year, so I dealt with behaviour and attendance—I never once had an incident where a…09 May 2023HANSARDDisadvantage Gap in SchoolsI congratulate the Minister on having the bravery when he first entered the Department back in 2010 to narrow the disadvantage gap and stand up to the unions when it came to some…17 Apr 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration UpdateFirst, I thank my right hon. Friend the Minister for his engagement, which has been robust between us at times. He will understand that in Stoke-on-Trent we have around 1,300…29 Mar 2023