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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Lady for raising this point. I am happy to ask my office to get in touch with her for details, so that we can highlight this to the Department for Work and…01 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have asked Sir Kevan Collins to look at a whole range of different options, and to consult widely with the sector, parents and children on what is best. My hon. Friend is…01 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsNo.01 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsNext Monday, schools and colleges will welcome all pupils in England back to face-to-face education. I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to teachers, support staff, parents…01 Mar 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend raises an important matter. We have asked Sir Kevan Collins to look across a full and broad range of ways of giving children a boost, not just to catch up on any…01 Mar 2021HANSARDSchool FacilitiesI am not familiar with the fence in question, but I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend to discuss it in more detail and work with him and officials to see whether there is…01 Mar 2021HANSARDPupils’ Return to Schools: Lateral Flow TestingRapid testing using lateral flow devices will support the return to face-to-face education by helping to identify people who are infectious but do not have any symptoms. For…01 Mar 2021HANSARDSchool FacilitiesWe have announced the first 50 schools in the new school rebuilding programme as part of our commitment to rebuild 500 schools over the next decade. We have allocated £9.5 billion…01 Mar 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021We always work incredibly closely with Public Health England at every stage. Obviously we, and I know my hon. Friend also, want to see the opening of all schools for all pupils at…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I refer the hon. Lady to my answer to the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Ruth Cadbury) on the extra support that is being made available to further education colleges.25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I can very much reassure my right hon. Friend that we are currently working with Ofqual and the exam boards on that exact piece of work right now, and we would hope to be able to…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021The hon. Lady is probably aware that my hon. Friend the Universities Minister laid out a set of packages of support for university students as part of a £70 million hardship fund.…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021My hon. Friend has always had strong views on face masks, and I very much note his comments. This will be reviewed during the Easter holidays. He is right to highlight the…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I very much agree that that sort of language is absolutely not acceptable, and it genuinely surprises me that it would have come from any school or educational establishment, as…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021With permission, I would like to make a statement regarding the opening of educational settings, our plans to help children catch up and the arrangements we have put in place for…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I thank the hon. Lady for her questions. She raises the question of vaccinations for staff. She will have seen in the road map that the Prime Minister launched on Monday that the…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments in relation to how we deliver catch-up. I also appreciate some of his thinking and ideas, which, as he can see, have been embedded in…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021We believe that, when we are not in a position to be able to run exams, the best way of assessing the work and the progress that the child has made is for that assessment to be…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021I would very much like to join my hon. Friend and neighbour in paying tribute to the amazing work of teachers not just in Dudley South but right across the country for the work…25 Feb 2021HANSARD Education Return and Awarding Qualifications in 2021It is disappointing that the hon. Member shows off the instinctive reaction of many people in her party that they do not want children to be going back to school. That is…25 Feb 2021