Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Sandy Martin and Anne Milton

Monday 25th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Anne Milton]

This is absolutely crucial. Obviously, someone who cannot speak English will be at a disadvantage. We have done a great deal more to improve the roll-out of ESOL. On the work we are doing in primary schools, the proportion of six-year-olds meeting expected standards in the phonics screening check has risen dramatically.

[Sandy Martin (Ipswich) (Lab)]

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