Results 1–20 of 3673 for speaker:Catherine McKinnell

SEND Provision (14 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: At the risk of focusing on an issue that is a distraction, let me emphasise that we need to invest in special educational needs provision in mainstream schools, for all the reasons that have been advanced today, including in the necessary teacher training. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded that this policy would bring in £1.3 billion to provide the 93% of children in the state...

SEND Provision (14 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: I thank the Chair of the Education Committee, the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr Walker), for securing this important debate and commend him for the work he does as the Select Committee’s Chair. I also pay tribute to those who work with and support children with special educational needs and disabilities. Across the country, teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, speech and language...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Concrete (13 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) pupils and (b) schools that have been unable to take part in national tests due to disruption caused by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the last 12 months.

Education: Maintained Schools Funding (11 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: Last year the National Audit Office reported that 700,000 children were being taught in schools needing major rebuilding works. On top of the problems caused by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, construction issues are emerging daily with block and beam flooring, high-alumina cement and asbestos—all long past their shelf life—up in North Tyneside and down to Luton and beyond....

World Book Day — [Mark Pritchard in the Chair] ( 6 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: It is a real pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Pritchard. I thank the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken) for securing this World Book Day debate, and I thank hon. Members who have contributed. It has been an incredibly thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion. This is one of those topics that reminds us why we got into politics: to ensure that all children...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: It is a pleasure to serve under you as Chair, Mr Paisley. I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Don Valley (Nick Fletcher) on securing this debate, which seeks to dig deeper into the educational attainment of boys at school, and other hon. Members on sharing their views this morning. The attainment gap between boys and girls is something that starts at an early age and grows throughout a...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Indeed, we will have a debate here tomorrow about World Book Day and how important reading and literacy is for children. We recognise it as the absolute core foundation of every child’s start in life, ensuring the best education for every child. I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has highlighted that today. We would also reintroduce a school...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: As I said earlier, Labour believes that education should be a priority, and should be at the centre of national life for this country. That requires the necessary funding to ensure that there are teachers. We know there are teaching gaps throughout our school system. Young people are not being taught by specialists in their subjects, and we know there is a shortage. Teachers are struggling to...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: It is interesting that hon. Members are here today to discuss an education system that they are highlighting is currently letting children down, which we in Labour agree is letting children down. After 14 years in government, it is quite remarkable that hon. Gentlemen would take that attitude to a costed proposal that seeks to meet the huge demands within our education system and the...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: The Labour party will present our offer for Government when the general election comes, which we are all waiting for at the moment, and we will put our fully costed plans in our manifesto. We are focused on improving and increasing mental health support for young people, which I will get to.

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: I will respond to the previous intervention first. We will pay for that by ending the loopholes that non-doms enjoy in this country. We will fund mental health support, as well as breakfast clubs, which are intended to tackle the issues that hon. Members have highlighted in this debate, which are getting worse, not better. I hope that hon. Members would be minded to note that, because they...

Educational Attainment of Boys — [Ian Paisley in the Chair] ( 5 Mar 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: I would not suggest that the right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to my speech, but I have set out a whole range of measures that Labour would put in place to raise the attainment of every child. Going back to mental health support, we would ensure that there are dedicated counsellors in every secondary school and that there are mental health hubs in every community. Children and their...

Ukraine: Military Equipment (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: May I take the opportunity to reiterate how proud we are of our armed forces personnel, who have worked around the clock to train and support Ukrainian recruits as part of the vital Op Interflex? I urge the Government to confirm where that programme will be after the summer and to make a commitment to it for as long as it takes Ukraine to win.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Construction (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent estimate of the average length of time that schools constructed with high alumina cement are viable for.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Construction (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the schools constructed using high alumina cement; how many and what proportion of those schools were constructed with that material; and what the average life span of buildings using that material is.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Construction (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools constructed with high alumina cement there are in each local authority.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Construction (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools were constructed with high alumina cement in each local authority which are no longer viable.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Construction (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools constructed with high alumina cement have been provided capital funding in the last (a) 12 months, (b) two years, (c) five years, (d) 10 years and (e) 14 years.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Concrete (21 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools were constructed using block and beam concrete in each local authority.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Concrete (21 Feb 2024)

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average expected design life is of schools constructed using block and beam concrete.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.