Covid-19: Education Settings

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:42 pm on 6 July 2021.

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Photo of Gavin Williamson Gavin Williamson The Secretary of State for Education 1:42, 6 July 2021

My hon. Friend is a new Member, and he arrives here with a lot of optimism. I reassure him that we have a broad, balanced and knowledge-rich curriculum of which we should be proud, although we always work to make sure it gets even better.

It is with some sadness that I say the National Education Union started off by saying it did not want teachers to teach pupils in person, and then said it did not want teachers to teach students online. It starts to make me question whether the National Education Union really believes in education at all. We will wait and see, and hopefully it will be more co-operative and hard-working in the next academic year.