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HANSARDSchools White PaperI was hoping for a plan, but none was forthcoming. The hon. Lady spoke about schools being closed. Labour, dancing to the tune of its union paymasters, wanted to keep them closed.…28 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Funding Formula and School Improvement ConsultationAlongside the Schools White Paper, which will enable every child to fulfil their potential by ensuring that they receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time,…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the publication of the schools White Paper. Since 2010, we have been on a mission to give every child a great education. We…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperWe are investing £7 billion, with £4 billion front-loaded this year and next year, and there is £5 billion for recovery. That is the investment. That is the commitment that we…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperThe wise words of a great teacher and a great headteacher.28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperWe will be evidence-led. We are also launching the Institute of Teaching to deliver the high standards on which my right hon. Friend rightly focuses.28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperI am slightly puzzled by the hon. Lady’s question. As I described, standards have consistently gone up because we have introduced things such as the phonics screening check. We…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperWe are supporting small rural schools through the national funding formula to make sure they have the funds they need.28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We endowed the Education Endowment Foundation when the coalition Government came into office, and I have just announced a further…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperMy hon. Friend asks a number of questions, which I will try to unpack. We will say more on our work with the Department of Health and Social Care in the SEND Green Paper tomorrow.…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperI remind the hon. Lady that there are now 217,000 teaching assistants in classrooms, a 6,000 increase since 2010. [Official Report, 30 March 2022, Vol. 711, c. 5MC.] I speak to…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperOfsted’s 2019 framework has, in many ways, helped schools both to focus on literacy and numeracy and to have a knowledge-rich curriculum, from which this White Paper does not…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperThe hon. Lady is right to say that there are many pressures on schools at the moment. The funding we secured at the spending review was £7 billion, with much of it—£4…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperThat is exactly what we have done. I hope that we can demonstrate in today’s work, but also in tomorrow’s Green Paper, the knitting together of how we deliver support to parents…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperThat is exactly what this White Paper will do and it is why the issue of teaching is so important to our plan. I will certainly have a look at the children’s university the right…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. The frontline—the 461,000 teachers and 217,000 teaching assistants—and the support staff and leaders in our education system have…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperMy right hon. Friend is right to highlight that issue. I was in the Department when we rolled out relationships education and relationships and sex education in the curriculum,…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperI am grateful to the Chair of the Education Committee. He raises a number of really important questions. He is absolutely right to identify that the schools White Paper, with the…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperThis White Paper will define the role of each of those stakeholders that the hon. Gentleman just described in the system. With that clarity, and the support for good leaders in…28 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful for the right hon. Lady’s question. The really important thing is to make sure we level up across the board. I was at Hammersmith Academy, which has 60% pupil…14 Mar 2022