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HANSARDEducationWe are investing £2.7 billion of capital funding to improve provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. [Official Report, 2 November 2021, Vol. 702, c.…02 Dec 2021HANSARDEducationWe are investing £2.6 billion of capital funding to improve provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.02 Dec 2021HANSARDSchool Uniform Costs: Statutory GuidanceThe Department for Education will today publish statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms. This guidance is issued under the Education (Guidance about Costs of School…19 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]The hon. Lady may recall that I first joined the Department for Education as apprenticeships tsar; I hope to talk about that later in my speech. I introduced the standards and the…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I hope, as I did in the weekly briefings that I gave as Vaccines Minister, to convince the hon. Lady tonight that that is incorrect. We are not getting rid of BTECs. I know at…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]The Education Committee did a very important piece of work on that precise subject. We are investing in recovery—investing £5 billion, following the Budget. We are investing in…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. In my previous role as Vaccines Minister, I set out how as a nation we would work our way back to normality by delivering…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]We are doing much of what the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) asks for, including in the local skills plans, where net zero will very much be part of the planning and…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I am well aware of that investment, and I will certainly look at the diary to see whether I can make time for a visit. I know that the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my…15 Nov 2021HANSARDGCSEs and A/AS Levels 2022: Contingency ArrangementsThe Government’s policy is that GCSE and A/AS level exams will go ahead in 2021-22, with adaptations to take account of the disruption to education that students have experienced.…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, whose opinion I value highly. He and I have worked on education for a number of years on a cross-party basis. The important thing to remember…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I will address that level 2 issue later in my speech. The LLE will give us the flexibility to be—I hope—responsive and agile, and will…15 Nov 2021HANSARD Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]I will try to give way later. I apologise, but I need to make some headway, because a great many Members want to contribute to the debate. Local skills improvement plans will help…15 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIndeed, Mr Speaker. We are investing £2.7 billion of capital funding to improve provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. [Official Report, 2 December…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. I know that he cares passionately about this subject and the overhaul of information and communications technology in the curriculum.…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that the UTC and the work it is doing with Sellafield is exactly the sort of high-skilled, high-ambition, career-developing education that we…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThere is no greater champion of this agenda than my right hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Select Committee on Education. “Skills, skills, skills” runs through his veins, and I…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI want to make sure that others get a chance to participate in the debate, so I will make some headway. I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me; I beg her indulgence. These…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsLevelling up is at the heart of the Government’s agenda. Levelling up means empowering local leaders and communities to drive real change: boosting living standards, particularly…02 Nov 2021HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will make some headway. I have taken many interventions. Let us not forget that these are not normal times for any of our schools and colleges. The task in front of them,…02 Nov 2021