Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports of the sale of (a) knives and (b) other illegal weapons on online shopping apps.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of age verification and identity checks by (a) Temu and (b) other online shopping apps for sales of (i) knives and (ii) other age-restricted items.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 202514 and the absence of a reference to that potential legislation in the King's Speech, what plans his Department has to bring forward legislative proposals on banning machetes and zombie knives.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish the details of (a) funding and (b) arrangements for the September 2024 intake of the Education Psychology Funded Training scheme.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of publishing arrangements for the 2024 intake of the Education Psychology Funded Training on the number of students applying for training.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of average waiting times from referral to the issue of an education, health and care plan in Wellingborough constituency.
Helen Hayes: Now that the welcome temporary pause is under way, what steps are the UK Government taking to press to ensure that it becomes an enduring ceasefire as soon as possible, leading to a political process for peace? Are the UK Government being clear with the Israeli Government that, as they seek to continue in their legitimate aim of destroying Hamas, a return to the relentless bombardment, the...
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 20 November 2023 to Question 755 on Carers: Finance, how her Department plans to spend the remaining £6 million committed in February 2023.
Helen Hayes: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage) on securing this important debate, and I thank everybody who has signed petitions to push this issue forward. I welcome Paula McGowan to Parliament today, and I thank her for all the work she has done in the name of her son, Oliver, to campaign for better...
Helen Hayes: I am just about to move on to exactly that. We would ensure that more children can have their needs met and be part of a school community close to where they live. Labour would use the funding from ending the tax breaks currently enjoyed by private schools to recruit 6,500 new teachers, including SEND specialists, thereby alleviating the current pressures on teaching staff and ensuring that...
Helen Hayes: I will not. I need to finish so that the Minister can come in and there is time for the hon. Member for Gosport to wind up afterwards. We want to see an increased focus on SEND within initial teacher training and the early career framework, and we will work with leading academic institutions, Teach First and others to ensure that all trainee teachers are routinely equipped to work with...
Helen Hayes: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage) on securing this important debate, and I thank everybody who has signed petitions to push this issue forward. I welcome Paula McGowan to Parliament today, and I thank her for all the work she has done in the name of her son, Oliver, to campaign for better...
Helen Hayes: I am just about to move on to exactly that. We would ensure that more children can have their needs met and be part of a school community close to where they live. Labour would use the funding from ending the tax breaks currently enjoyed by private schools to recruit 6,500 new teachers, including SEND specialists, thereby alleviating the current pressures on teaching staff and ensuring that...
Helen Hayes: I will not. I need to finish so that the Minister can come in and there is time for the hon. Member for Gosport to wind up afterwards. We want to see an increased focus on SEND within initial teacher training and the early career framework, and we will work with leading academic institutions, Teach First and others to ensure that all trainee teachers are routinely equipped to work with...
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report entitled Children's Social Care: Stable Homes, Built on Love, published in September 2023, how her Department plans to use the £9 million earmarked for kinship care training and support.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to regulate the use of restraints on looked after children and young people during secure transportation.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Stable Homes, Built on Love: Implementation Strategy, whether standards of care will (a) set standards on the use restraint and (b) apply to providers of secure transportation for looked after children.
Helen Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has issued recent guidance to schools on technical standards for computer equipment.
Helen Hayes: I will address two issues in my response to the King’s Speech, both of which relate to violence. In my constituency, we have lost far too many young lives to serious violence, including, since the start of September, Ronaldo Scott and Keelen Morris Wong. Both were brutally murdered in broad daylight with huge knives of the kind known as “Rambo knives” or “zombie knives.” They both...
Helen Hayes: I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and he is right. This process is not easy—nobody is saying that it is—but my conscience tells me that calling for a ceasefire is the right thing to do. That is not a unilateral laying-down of arms, but a bilateral humanitarian ceasefire predicated on the release of hostages and leading to an internationally brokered peace process and a...
