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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Does the Secretary of State regard as a triumph for new Labour the fact that 12 years on 4 million children are living in poverty?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: You represent a Suffolk constituency, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and you share with the county of Essex the birthplace and home of the country's greatest landscape painter, John Constable. He, of course, is famous for his broad canvasses, but within them there is a great attention to detail, and later on I shall turn to that point. Government Ministers will be pleased to know that every Constable...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: The Chairman of the Committee rightly praises the development of the 14-to-19 non-academic qualification. Does he agree, however, that that programme would be even more successful if there were not more than 100 colleges around the country whose promised building programmes have been halted? If the Government delivered what they promised, would that policy be more successful?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Around the country, we have seen the emergence of a few super-heads, who run two or three secondary schools. Although the Secretary of State has been silent about them today, he has welcomed them outside the Chamber. Can the hon. Gentleman let us know what the Conservative party view is on super-heads?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Oh, he will get here, will he?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman's sincerity. It is not what Conservatives say from the Front Bench today that concerns me, but what happens with Conservatives out there running education authorities. When 96 per cent. of parents in my constituency objected to the closure of two schools, wishing their schools to remain open under a super-head, the local Conservative-controlled education...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the Secretary of State give a definition of what a local community school is when a community has a school that the Tories want to shut, but the community wants to keep?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the Secretary of State give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (10 Nov 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Although the number of deaths on our roads is at its lowest since records began, every life lost is one too many. The grief of families, however, is made worse when frequently they do not know what has happened to the driver of the vehicle in which their loved-one died. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is necessary for sentencing in all court cases in which a life has been lost,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Colchester is the fastest growing borough in the country. Despite that, Tory-controlled Essex county council plans to shut two of the town's seven secondary schools. It is now known that the council massaged the figures on projected pupil numbers. Does the Prime Minister therefore agree that the reorganisation proposals should be investigated by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator,...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Means Tested Benefits (4 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the number of people who did not claim a means-tested benefit to which they were entitled in the last 12 months; what estimate she has made of the amount of money in means-tested benefit which was not claimed by such people; and if she will make a statement.