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HANSARD Levelling-up and Regeneration BillIt is good to hear the policies that my right hon. and learned Friend is outlining. My constituency has a high housing target that is forcing the closure of a working port. How…13 Dec 2022HANSARDHotel Asylum Accommodation: Local Authority ConsultationI thank my right hon. Friend for his engagement with a number of us over the last few weeks and for the work he is doing having come into the job only a few weeks ago. He has…23 Nov 2022HANSARDEnvironment Agency: Enforcement BudgetI understand that there are pressures with the prioritisation of any kind of enforcement, but in my constituency, in the village Borstal, we have been blighted with an illegal…17 Nov 2022HANSARD Housing Targets: Planning SystemI congratulate my hon. Friend on bringing forward the debate. My constituency neighbours his, and we in Rochester and Strood have seen the stresses and strains on local services…15 Nov 2022HANSARD Housing Targets: Planning SystemI appreciate what the Minister is setting out. In my constituency, because of the drive to meet unrealistic housing targets, we are having to close a successful working port to…15 Nov 2022HANSARDEBacc Subjects and Modern Foreign Languages at GCSEThe Government remain committed to improving uptake of Ebacc subjects, specifically languages. Building on our modern foreign language pedagogy pilot, we will establish a national…24 Oct 2022HANSARDSchool Places: Pupils with Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesAs I mentioned, we are investing £2.6 billion over the next three years in new spaces for SEND and alternative provision. We have also implemented £1.4 billion in high-needs…24 Oct 2022HANSARDSchool Places: Pupils with Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesI share my hon. Friend’s commitment to improving special educational needs provision in Northumberland, particularly in his constituency. The Department is working closely with…24 Oct 2022HANSARDSchool Places: Pupils with Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesWe are making a transformational investment to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, investing £2.6 billion between 2022 and 2025.…24 Oct 2022HANSARDEBacc Subjects and Modern Foreign Languages at GCSEMy hon. Friend raises an important question about the availability of more world languages, which are important for our young people because the United Kingdom operates in a…24 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sorry to hear of the issues that my hon. Friend’s constituents have been having and the distress that that is causing for those families. In March, the Government published…24 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do sympathise with Brackenfield School’s predicament. Supporting children and young people with SEND to live fulfilling lives is of paramount importance. The local authority is…24 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Lady is aware, we are currently evaluating the three reports issued earlier this year, in particular the independent review of children’s social care. I have been…24 Oct 2022HANSARDSchool Places: Pupils with Special Educational Needs and DisabilitiesI can confirm that the SEND and AP Green Paper—the SEND review—was not and is not an opportunity for us to reduce the support that children with special educational needs require…24 Oct 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis past year adoptions have gone up, but it is on a lower trajectory. One potential reason for that is that in 2013 a court ruling confirmed that adoption orders should be made…24 Oct 2022HANSARDKinship CarersI know that the hon. Lady is passionate about this area, and I recognise what she has illustrated. The stories that Members have told in this debate have alluded to similar…18 Oct 2022HANSARDKinship CarersI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We need also to look at this through the lens of our work in the Green Paper on special educational needs and disabilities and…18 Oct 2022HANSARDKinship CarersIt is a great honour to be here today responding on behalf of the Government in my new role. I want to start by thanking the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) for…18 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty the QueenI rise on behalf of my constituents in Rochester and Strood to extend my deepest condolences to the royal family. Her late Majesty’s death is a terrible loss for us all and has…10 Sept 2022HANSARD Free School Meals and Child PovertyI absolutely get the point about stigma, and I know that schools work incredibly hard to overcome it. Free school meal eligibility will be under review, and in this post I look…08 Sept 2022