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HANSARD Education FundingI know that the hon. Lady has long campaigned in the f40 group for changes in school funding, and I thought that my statement might give her an opportunity to welcome the changes…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingWe always keep that issue under review, and I will come back to my hon. Friend when we have made further decisions on it. Let me take this opportunity to thank him for being such…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingWe will update the House in due course on how we will work with Ofsted in that regard, but I think that one of our most important reforms has been ensuring that Ofsted can inspect…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingAn important element of the funding settlement that we have agreed with the Treasury is a recognition of demographic change that different parts of the country are experiencing,…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingI thank the hon. Lady for her kind words. She has raised an important point. I took the opportunity to visit a maintained nursery school in Sheffield to gain a proper…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingI know that my hon. Friend has been a doughty campaigner for schools and further education colleges in her constituency. One of the first pieces of correspondence I received was…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingThis is a 4.7% increase. I know that the hon. Gentleman is a distinguished lecturer, and that he inspired many pupils in the course of his career before entering the House. I look…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingMy right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point. I know that he represents a county that has historically faced funding challenges and that he has always campaigned for…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingWe are giving schools the largest funding package in a generation. I know how much all schools value the amazing work that teaching assistants do every single day throughout the…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingMy hon. Friend has long campaigned for a better and fairer funding settlement for Cornwall, and it is a great pleasure to be able to deliver that. I would be delighted to meet him…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingI know that my hon. Friend has been campaigning with many other colleagues who have been affected by historic lower levels of school funding in certain counties, and the result of…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingIt is always vitally important that we do everything we can to support children with special educational needs in mainstream schools, but I would point out that the numbers of…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingI join my hon. Friend in congratulating Goole college on the turnaround it has been able to achieve. I know my hon. Friend has a lot of experience in this field, having taught for…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingHaving had the great opportunity to visit Beauchamp college and Saint George’s primary school in my hon. Friend’s constituency, I know that they have been delivering the very best…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingWhat we always take with great seriousness is how we can enhance and support all those with special educational needs. I am looking at this very closely, along with my hon. Friend…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingIt is absolutely vital to ensure proper discipline in every single school, but it is also vitally important that those children who need the most support have that provided either…03 Sept 2019HANSARDEducation FundingToday I will be making an oral statement in the House, updating on the schools and colleges funding package announced by the Prime Minister last weekend. The package includes a…03 Sept 2019HANSARD Education FundingI can assure the hon. Lady that provision has been made for local authorities to deliver more money for every school in England.03 Sept 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentI beg to move, That this House has considered the 50th anniversary of the continuous at sea deterrent. Half a century ago, HMS Resolution glided into the Clyde and sailed into the…10 Apr 2019HANSARDContinuous At-Sea DeterrentThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and it is something that I would be willing to look at. I am sure he is aware that it is not, sadly, a decision purely for the…10 Apr 2019