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HANSARDSpecial Educational Needs: WiltshireI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) on securing this important debate. He has spoken eloquently and passionately about Larkrise School…06 Mar 2019HANSARD Children’s Social Care: RotherhamI congratulate the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) on securing this important debate. We have heard interventions from the right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Sir…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Children’s Social Care: RotherhamI attempted earlier to explain our plan for the spending review, but I hope the hon. Lady will understand that I cannot pre-empt a spending review from the Dispatch Box. The…05 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial ViabilityI will happily meet the hon. Lady, and even join her, if my diary permits, to have a look at that work. I have seen many local authorities throughout the country deliver outreach…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend has read the report, and there is cross-Government work through the serious violence taskforce. As I said, exclusion from school must not mean exclusion from…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsOff-rolling of pupils is illegal. Edward Timpson’s review is in progress and will report very soon. Exclusion from school must not mean exclusion from education. Our priority in…04 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial ViabilityThe hon. Lady will know that we had a very good debate on that matter last Thursday, when 13 hon. and right hon. Members spoke from the Back Benches about the provision of…04 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial ViabilityTo my knowledge, two local authorities have done the same thing in England, and I urge other local authorities to look into what they can do to help childcare providers to cope…04 Feb 2019HANSARDChildcare Settings: Financial ViabilityWe plan to spend £3.5 billion this year to deliver our funded early-years entitlements. We recognise the need to keep our evidence base on costs up to date, and continue to…04 Feb 2019HANSARDUniversal Infant Free School Meals PolicyI am grateful for that question. Giving free school meals to infants encourages children to start on the right path to nutritious meals. Those who are eligible will go on to claim…04 Feb 2019HANSARDUniversal Infant Free School Meals PolicyTake-up is a key measure of success for universal infant free school meals, and it has been strong since the introduction of the policy. According to the latest figures, 1.5…04 Feb 2019HANSARDUniversal Infant Free School Meals PolicyI am grateful for that question. It is good to see the shadow Front-Bench team intact after the weekend speculation that they were about to split with the leadership. It is worth…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are working with Public Health England to update school food standards. This will focus on reducing sugar consumption and include guidance to caterers and schools. We are…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Maintained Nursery Schoolsindicated assent .31 Jan 2019HANSARD Maintained Nursery SchoolsI am pushing as hard as I can to ensure that we are able to go back to the sector with a position as soon as possible. As I said earlier in relation to the urgency over admissions…31 Jan 2019HANSARD Maintained Nursery SchoolsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that. As I have said, we will be publishing our own research very soon. I know that this is later than we had originally hoped, and I apologise…31 Jan 2019HANSARD Maintained Nursery SchoolsI congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) on securing this important debate. We have had 13 excellent speeches from the Back Benches, including from my…31 Jan 2019HANSARD Maintained Nursery SchoolsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that intervention. That message has come across loud and clear today, and this is something that we are very cognisant of.31 Jan 2019HANSARD Pupil Referral UnitsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. I hope that my remarks will continue to deal with the issue of funding and how much investment we are making. As I was…22 Jan 2019HANSARD Pupil Referral UnitsI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Chris Green) on securing this important debate. He speaks from experience of his local PRU and the work it does with the…22 Jan 2019