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Westminster Hall
Key Stage 1 Curriculum - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: John Milne (LD - Horsham) educational needs and other children. - Speech Link
2: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) Children in low-income families or those with special educational needs and disabilities are most likely - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) or special educational needs. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
2nd reading - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) Member agree that that area perhaps needs some work? - Speech Link
2: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) This Bill needs to be our best work. - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) educational needs fall through the net. - Speech Link
4: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) Fundamentally, as we work to fix the special educational needs and disabilities system, we must bear - Speech Link
5: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) We have a number of suggestions for how this process might be improved—for instance, in special needs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Manfred’s story is part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s virtual reality Testimony 360 education - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) a similar note, when she talked of how “compliance is the enabler”.To my mind, Holocaust education needs - Speech Link
3: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The Holocaust Educational Trust knows that the Holocaust cannot and must not be taught in isolation. - Speech Link
4: Lord Howard of Lympne (Con - Life peer) More needs to be done, and I hope that this memorial day, this debate and the debate that is to take - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Pollock CBE, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, and Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE, chief - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None There is a problem that needs to be resolved, but I suggest that the Government can resolve it without - Speech Link
2: None This is a pretty special group of people, and we need to support them. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Frankly, everybody needs to work together much better to make this work. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (PC - Life peer) They deserve the ability to shape them in line with their needs and values. The time is now. - Speech Link
5: None , trauma and unmet developmental needs. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Southgate and Wood Green) Cuts to the educational aid budget could push a further 6 million children out of school by the end of - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (RUK - Romford) That attitude is wrong and needs to change. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (RUK - Romford) A voluntary association bound by shared language, legal traditions and educational standards embodies - Speech Link
4: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) educational needs and disabilities. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) It urgently needs reform. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finances: Surrey - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) educational needs system and support available for children, schools and families. - Speech Link
2: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) educational needs provision. - Speech Link
3: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LAB - Peckham) educational needs and disabilities, because we understand that there is pressure, and the impact that - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) One side effect of the financial pressures that Surrey faces as a consequence of special educational - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Local Government Reorganisation: Referendums - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Jack Abbott (LAB - Ipswich) educational needs provision in crisis, children and families passed from pillar to post and adult social - Speech Link
2: Jack Abbott (LAB - Ipswich) At a time when potholes are going unfilled and children with special educational needs are being failed - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) As everybody knows, the two biggest costs are adult social care and high needs children’s social care - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) I am stuck in the middle, so to speak, between an urban city that ultimately needs money in its most - Speech Link
5: Andrew Rosindell (RUK - Romford) I am happy to have an election as soon as possible, because this country needs change. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Waste Collection: Birmingham and the West Midlands - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) educational needs and disabilities, and on the prevention of homelessness to help alleviate the financial - Speech Link
2: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) We cannot do that without a town hall that has the resources that it needs to help people. - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The Government have a specific, special role in this matter. - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) I have set out my opinion that this needs to be brought to an end. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Powys health board has been categorising the needs of its patients based on cost rather than clinical - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) educational needs, overhauled our water system, and today launched a £15 billion plan to create warm - Speech Link
3: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) educational needs and disabilities, and his local authority in Camden is the highest—an inequality that - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Special educational needs are probably raised with me more than any other issue that is raised in the - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) Children with disabilities and special educational needs in Somerset will be severely hit if the Government - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) Equally in my experience, strong practice, good evidence and innovation, often based on local needs, - Speech Link
2: None educational needs or disabilities, to screens and other digital devices,(b) the balance between screen-based - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) One keeps her connected to family and friends, and the other she needs for her GCSE art. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) That needs clarifying at the very least.Despite histrionic headlines, social media can be used for self-educational - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) It would exclude educational platforms used in schools and universities for educational purposes, as - Speech Link