Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:56 pm on 31 January 2017.
Helen Hayes
Labour, Dulwich and West Norwood
11:56,
31 January 2017
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for securing this important debate, even at this late hour. I have written to all the headteachers in my Constituency over the last few weeks, and they tell me that the pressures of the increase in national insurance contributions and the cuts to their funding are already forcing them to make very difficult decisions about cuts to support staff, in particular, and to SEN provision and so on. Does she agree that those are precisely the kinds of resource that have enabled London schools to be so successful over the past 10 years?
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent