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HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The changes that I spoke about include the single national integrated SEND and AP system; excellent provision from early years to adulthood;…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewIt was good to brief the hon. Lady and the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton. The Green Paper has had a warm welcome from the unions the Association of School and…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s thoughtful question, which the Chair of the Education Committee also raised. Essentially, the Green Paper will make sure that we hold local…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewMy right hon. Friend and I share a passion for data and transparency. I know that he is looking at the evidence of what really works in the early identification of and screening…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Lady, who I know is passionate about the issue and whose constituency I have promised to visit. She is absolutely right that parents are tired. My…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful to my hon. Friend. Of course, we considered very carefully the recommendations from the Timpson review in regard to our recommendations for the AP system and, from…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman; he has always been a champion for those with special educational needs and disabilities, not just in his constituency, but around the country.…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI know that the hon. Lady is passionate about maths. She will know that over the past three years the overall budget has risen by 40% to £9.1 billion—a pretty big increase. She…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his characteristically thoughtful and well-evidenced question. The Green Paper contains a commitment from the Secretary of State for Health and…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewThe hon. Lady’s final point is absolutely right. The plans for supporting parents will lead to much greater transparency and improved choice through more local inclusive…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewAs I have said, both yesterday and today, the combination of the schools White Paper and the parent pledge—whereby teachers identify gaps in reading, writing and speech and share…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI know that the hon. Lady is a passionate champion for blind and partially sighted people. We will ensure that we consult them, as we have done already in formulating the Green…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewMy hon. Friend is a great champion of those who have dyspraxia, and he has real in-depth knowledge of the sector, as was discussed yesterday in the statement on the schools White…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the success rate at tribunals is symptomatic of a system that is failing, which is why this Green Paper is long overdue, as I…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI can certainly give my hon. Friend the assurance that we will reach out to them.29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI know that my hon. Friend is a great champion of children who are deaf. When I was Children and Families Minister, I saw at first hand the incredible work that the stakeholders…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. In that partnership, we are proposing to ensure that parents are an important part of the local SEND plan, as we have seen in the…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI hope to be able to write to the hon. Lady giving her those details about the Green Paper, but suffice it to say that we have tried to look not just at early years provision but…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewI thank my hon. Friend for making it here today, and I am glad that her voice is holding up. I can absolutely reassure her. A couple of weeks ago, I visited Highfurlong SEN school…29 Mar 2022HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs and Disabilities ReviewMy hon. Friend speaks with passion and probably pain from having to consult those parents who have fought and feel that they are sometimes let down by the system. We have to…29 Mar 2022