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HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningI apologise to the hon. Lady for her receiving the statement late. I will ensure that it does not happen again. I am delighted to hear that it is the Labour party’s priority to…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningMy right hon. Friend makes an important point about the importance of benchmarking and making an assessment of where pupils are. We will be doing that, working right across the…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningThe hon. Lady will probably have witnessed the fact that over 1.6 million children returned to school before the summer holidays here in England. It is interesting that she raises…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningIt is fair to say that the Scottish National party in Scotland, the Conservatives in England, Labour and the Liberal Democrats in Wales, and the Democratic Unionist party and Sinn…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningIt is great to hear about the brilliant work of the Invicta Academy. We have seen brilliant examples right across the country of schools doing so much to support learning when…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningAs the hon. Gentleman will know, we announced last year a £14.4 billion increase in school funding. That was a three-year deal, and we are seeing it rolled out in this academic…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningI am very aware that my constituency neighbour, who has been out campaigning and doing everything he can to get all children in his constituency back into school, is a real…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningMy right hon. Friend makes a valid point. He will know all too well that many schools across the Vale of Glamorgan have different pressures, and we are seeing this right across…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningThe Government have outlined increases in school budgets for not just this academic year but the next one and will be increasing school funding further in the academic year after…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningWe are working closely with the Education Endowment Foundation to ensure that those tutorials are rolled out through this academic year. All the studies point to the fact that the…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningAs part of the advice that was worked up along with the Education Endowment Foundation, one of the key recommendations was looking at how to extend the school day and at provision…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningOne of the key reasons we took the decision to move to moderated grades in March was that many of the studies previously carried out showed that going to purely predicted grades…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningThe national tutoring fund and the covid catch-up premium will be implemented for this coming academic year, so children get the benefit of it immediately.01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningMy hon. Friend raises an important point. I join him in paying tribute to all those who work in the schools, nurseries and colleges across the Aylesbury constituency for the work…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningI note the hon. Gentleman’s comments about the World Health Organisation. He will no doubt have read the World Health Organisation’s guidance, which mentioned areas of high…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningI know that the awarding organisation Pearson is working very closely with the centres where there are still some students who have not received their grades. This is something…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningMy hon. Friend speaks incredibly passionately about the importance of ensuring that youngsters are in the best position to be able to learn in the best and most comfortable…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningIn what we would certainly hope to be a very unusual situation—whereby there was a local lockdown and where every other measure had been taken, including extra social distancing,…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningI can confirm that that is the case; we will cover those exam fees. We are looking at running the series in the autumn. Obviously, these are GCSE and A-level papers, some of which…01 Sept 2020HANSARD Schools and Colleges: Qualification Results and Full OpeningMy hon. Friend raises an important point. This is why we set out in guidance a clear expectation of what is a minimum. As part of Ofsted’s inspection regime, it will be looking at…01 Sept 2020