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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe purpose of the important package announced today is to ensure that parents on universal credit, or the tax-free childcare element, claim what is rightfully theirs. We are…04 Jul 2022HANSARDChildren’s Social Care Services: ReformWe will publish an ambitious implementation strategy later this year following three important pieces of work: first, the independent review of social care—the MacAlister…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt least I am not missing in action. If the hon. Lady had looked at the detail of my White Paper rather than attempted to play politics with it, she would know that I always…04 Jul 2022HANSARDChildren’s Social Care Services: ReformMy hon. Friend asks an important question, and he will know that we are looking at how we help local authorities to commission and buy places much more efficiently with the…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAffordable and Accessible ChildcareIf the hon. Lady reads the announcement and the case study we put forward, she will see that if the cost is passed on to parents, it is about £40. Crucially, however, it is not a…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady. We will wait to see the work of the pay review bodies. We have submitted our recommendation, and we will wait to hear what they say about it.04 Jul 2022HANSARDLiterature Taught in SchoolsI want to be clear: parents should know what their children are being taught in school. There are clear requirements on schools about providing parents with information about…04 Jul 2022HANSARDSTEM Teachers: Disadvantaged AreasI know that the hon. Gentleman is passionate about the topic, including through his think-tank’s work. He is right that universities, including the Open University, will play a…04 Jul 2022HANSARDAffordable and Accessible ChildcareOfsted has been central to our work and we are consulting on the ratio issue that he mentions. We are also looking closely at childminders, a market that could do with some tender…04 Jul 2022HANSARDChild ProtectionToday, the independent national child safeguarding practice review panel published its national review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. The murders of…26 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Schools Bill will protect grammar schools. However, we have 165 grammar schools, and 90 of them are already playing their part in those families of schools in multi-academy…23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend raises a very powerful point, and he is quite right: children should be taught how to think, not what to think.23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not know whether the hon. Lady was listening when I talked about the 7% cash increase in the budget for schools this year compared with last year—that is £4 billion going to…23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI support the chair of the Office for Students for all the work that he is doing to improve outcomes for students in our universities.23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Church of England and the Catholic Church have been partners on the journey of the White Paper. They are already making ambitious plans to deliver what we all want to…23 May 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsQuite the opposite. The hon. Lady clearly does not follow the evidence. If she looked at it, she would see that families of schools in high-performing multi-academy trusts have…23 May 2022HANSARDLow-Performing Areas: Education FundingI have set out in the White Paper that we share the commitment to raising literacy standards, as I am sure the whole House does, and we want to ensure that all children can read…23 May 2022HANSARDLow-Performing Areas: Education FundingI never tire of saying that data and transparency are our greatest allies in improving educational outcomes. We are absolutely focused on delivering against the ambitious targets…23 May 2022HANSARDLow-Performing Areas: Education FundingI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his excellent question. I am working to ensure that every school has access to high-speed broadband connectivity by 2025. Priority schools in…23 May 2022HANSARDLow-Performing Areas: Education FundingMy hon. Friend is certainly a role model in how he has celebrated Doncaster becoming a city. I am delighted that the role models project is connecting schools in Don Valley to…23 May 2022