Oral Answers to Questions — Education

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 June 2018.

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The Secretary of State was asked—

  • Special Educational Needs: Support Services (14 speeches)

    What steps he is taking to ensure that children with special educational needs are able to access support services that are close to home.

  • Children’s Academic and Practical Skills (16 speeches)

    What steps he is taking to ensure that all children have continuing opportunities to develop academic and practical skills.

  • Social Work Profession (6 speeches)

    What progress his Department has made on strengthening the social work profession.

  • Care Crisis Review (8 speeches)

    If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations for his Department in the Family Rights Group report, “Care Crisis Review: Options for Change”, published...

  • Childcare Settings: Financial Viability (12 speeches)

    What assessment he has made of the effect of the Government’s policy on funded childcare on the financial viability of childcare settings.

  • Cold Water Shock: Mandatory Teaching (7 speeches)

    Whether he plans to include mandatory teaching on cold water shock as part of compulsory swimming and water lessons.

  • T-levels (16 speeches)

    What progress his Department has made on the introduction of T-levels.

  • Education Settings (16 speeches)

    What steps his Department is taking to ensure that children educated in all settings are safe and receive a good education.

  • Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy (6 speeches)

    What steps he has taken to implement the recommendations set out in “Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy: An independent review” by Sir Nick Weller, published in November 2016.

  • School Budgets (12 speeches)

    What estimate he has made of the number of schools that will have a cash terms reduction in their budget in 2018-19 compared with 2017-18.

  • Academy Trusts (4 speeches)

    What steps he is taking to respond to poorly performing academy trusts.

  • Neurodiverse People (4 speeches)

    What steps his Department is taking to improve the learning experience for neurodiverse people.

  • STEM Subjects (6 speeches)

    What steps his Department has taken to increase the take-up of STEM subjects.

  • Free School and Academy Programmes (4 speeches)

    What assessment he has made of the effect of the free school and academy programmes on GCSE results.

  • Higher Education: EU Students (4 speeches)

    What his policy is on the eligibility of EU students starting courses in English higher education institutions in 2019-20 and 2020-21 for home fee status and student loans and grants.

  • Post-16 Education: Social Mobility (4 speeches)

    What steps he is taking to improve social mobility in post-16 education.

  • Children’s Centres (4 speeches)

    What recent assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness of children’s centres and (b) ability of families to access those centres.

  • Topical Questions (44 speeches)

    If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.