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HANSARDCovid-19 Management in SchoolsI am grateful to the shadow Minister for his question and his remarks about the team. I remind him that it was the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation that initially…01 Nov 2021HANSARDArts Courses: Funding ReductionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend—I think he is—for his question, although I completely disagree with him. Nevertheless, it is important to remember that the arts play an incredible…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentAs set out in the spending review, we are investing £3.8 billion more in further education and skills over the Parliament as a whole. We are supporting adults to get the skills…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentI thank my hon. Friend for his question. I am delighted that Darlington College will offer T-levels in education and childcare and in engineering and manufacturing from next year.…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s question. We know that now more than ever we need to invest in adult skills and training. The lifetime skills guarantee gives adults in colleges…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentI am grateful to the hon. Lady. I can set out precisely how we are taking this forward: we are investing £2.5 billion—if we take the Barnett funding, it is £3 billion—in the…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentAs always, the hon. Lady makes an important contribution to the debate. It is important to remember that we are focusing on tactical interventions such as bootcamps and our…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentI certainly share my right hon. Friend’s priorities and ambition. More importantly, if we can make this work, it truly is scalable and can be a model for other parts of the…01 Nov 2021HANSARDLifelong Learning and Skills DevelopmentI thank the hon. Lady for her question. I want to just squash that misrepresentation: we are not withdrawing funding from BTECs. BTECs that are of high quality and are valued will…01 Nov 2021HANSARDNational Tutoring ProgrammeThe national tutoring programme reached 308,000 pupils in 2020-21 and this year it is expanding further to offer high quality tuition for up to 2 million pupils across the country.01 Nov 2021HANSARDNational Tutoring ProgrammeI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her question. She is always assiduous and follows the evidence. I am also grateful to her for coming to the Department on another matter…01 Nov 2021HANSARDNational Tutoring ProgrammeAll I would remind the hon. Lady is that, if we look at the league tables, England is doing well under a Conservative Government and will continue to do well. If she will only…01 Nov 2021HANSARDNational Tutoring ProgrammeI give a great shout-out to Katie Vickers, the academic mentor that my hon. Friend and the Minister for School Standards met at Burnopfield Primary School. My hon. Friend will…01 Nov 2021HANSARDNational Tutoring ProgrammeI am never satisfied until we have delivered. Ultimately, we can have an arms race about how much we can spend, but it is all about outcomes. When the hon. Lady sees some of the…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Chancellor’s announcement last week in respect of my Department’s spending plans was about skills, schools and families. For schools, that means a cash increase of £1,500 per…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe new recovery funding will help schools deliver evidence-based approaches to support the most disadvantaged pupils, including eligible pupils with special educational needs and…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhere we disagree, respectfully, is that there are now 3,000 family centres. All the evidence suggested that the Sure Start scheme invested in buildings rather than in the…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am pleased to hear that Orchards Academy is one of the first 100 schools to benefit from the schools rebuilding programme. I will certainly join my hon. Friend on a visit.01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her important question. A unit at the Cabinet Office has been working with social media platforms to highlight anti-vax misinformation and to…01 Nov 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. I visited Coventry West Academy—I know that it is not in her constituency, but it is certainly a fantastic school that is being…01 Nov 2021