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HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI mentioned in my statement the covid fund that we have made available, which we have extended further, so schools that need additional support in terms of temporary staff have…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI can absolutely give my hon. Friend that assurance.05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI thank my hon. Friend for her remarks. It is a huge team effort by many of my brilliant civil servants in the Department, and of course the frontline teachers and headteachers,…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI remind the hon. Lady that at the spending review settlement we achieved a funding settlement for schools of £4.6 billion, which school leaders, certainly those I spoke to,…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI think it is worth just taking a step back. We delivered 350,000 CO 2 monitors. The majority of schools did not report any issues with the atmosphere in the classroom. The reason…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryNot a day longer than necessary.05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryMy hon. Friend is certainly not bottom of the class. His experience of local government and his contribution to national Government are exemplary. That was a very good double…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryAbsolutely. We managed to secure further funding in the spending review, so the total amount of funding going into catch-up is now just short of £5 billion—I think it is £4.9…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryThe right hon. Member raises a really important question. This week, I deliberately had a Zoom meeting with pretty much all local directors of public health—more than 200…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising an important point. I remind the House that when teachers are standing at the front of their classroom, they are not required to wear…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s important and thoughtful question. We are doing several things. As I have made clear, we are going back to examination. Exams will take place…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryMay I begin by wishing you and the whole House a happy new year, Mr Speaker? With permission, I would like to make a statement regarding the return to all educational settings for…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI fear the hon. Lady has very little experience of operationalising anything, given the way she has attempted to misrepresent the efforts we have made to ensure that schools are…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryNottingham has much to be proud of: not only its students getting themselves vaccinated—over 90% of university students have now taken the vaccine, and I thank them for doing…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryMasks are one of a number of mitigations. The most important mitigation is the vaccine—that is indisputable, whether it is the first two jabs or, now, the booster campaign—and…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI remind the House that it is guidance —rather than mandate—on mask wearing in communal parts as part of plan B, which we announced at the end of last year, and now on wearing…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryWhy Dyson? Because my civil servants also set up a marketplace for other schools that want to buy air purifiers, and they have looked at what is available in the market and…05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI hope that the shadow Front-Bench team will continue to think about their position and change their mind.05 Jan 2022HANSARD Education: Return in JanuaryI thank the headteachers, teachers and support staff in the hon. Lady’s constituency for their work. Teachers have gone above and beyond. Some 99.9% of schools were open at the…05 Jan 2022HANSARDEducationNot that long ago, only about 37% of local authorities had a good Ofsted inspection. The one thing I would correct her on is that it is not so binary as pass and fail, because,…16 Dec 2021