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HANSARDDepartment for EducationWell, I have been here for 22 years, and I have also seen a thing or two. When I was a Minister at the Department for Education, we came up with the early intervention budget…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationThe hon. Lady is absolutely right, and it is of course the local authorities that get the blame for not delivering the goods, even though we have not been giving them the money to…26 Feb 2019HANSARDDepartment for EducationI congratulate the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier), on bringing forward this report. It is good that we have…26 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryI pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, as a fellow member of the Home Affairs Committee, for securing this debate. On leadership, I am sure he will agree that in order for the…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryI want to take up the hon. Gentleman’s point about young people. A report produced a few years ago by the all-party parliamentary group for children on the relationship between…25 Feb 2019 Bills sponsored (13)