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Westminster Hall
Mindfulness in Schools - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) Ghey, who was murdered in my constituency a year ago this coming Sunday. - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) an entire 12-month period in the classroom. - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) sit on them should form part of the curriculum. - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) A child who was referred at the start of secondary school would be about to sit their GCSEs by the time - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) , in good time, content that is illegal and identified as such. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Autism and Learning Disability Training - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) the classroom, findings from a 2021 report showed that seven in 10 autistic children and young people - Speech Link
2: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) universal services programme, which will receive £12 million in funding, and that £1.4 million is available - Speech Link
3: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) Autistic boys in the classroom behave very differently from autistic girls who might just sit at the - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) , as an athlete and in his exams. - Speech Link
5: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) trainee and new teachers should learn, including content on adaptive teaching for students with special - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) Planned for 10 years in the future, this proposed reform of exams is at least two general elections away - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) Research by YouGov shows that eight in 10 of those who used private healthcare last year would previously - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) who find it hard to pass GCSE exams in English and maths at 16, and as a result are condemned to an - Speech Link
4: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Who is monitoring the quality and content of these online courses? - Speech Link
5: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) One in every 12 women over 55 experiences a spinal fracture, rising to one in 10 for those over 60.We - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Under-age Vaping - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) In 2021, just 3.3% of 15-year-olds were regular smokers, although of course we want to reduce that figure - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) My 12-year-old would not thank you for anything with a unicorn on, because that is very much for younger - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) of vaping on the education of students, including interruptions to exams. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) The strategy sets out our 10-year ambition for boosting the health and well-being of women and girls, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) some countries, they now will not be addressed in others—VSO has certainly had to reduce the number - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) is more to be done to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) 226 women who have the right to sit in this hallowed Chamber. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sport in Schools and Communities - Tue 10 Jan 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) 10 years, state secondary schools in England have lost over 36,000 hours of PE from the curriculum. - Speech Link
2: Sara Britcliffe (CON - Hyndburn) In an era in which more than 80% of 10 to 15-year-olds have their own smartphone and more than 40% have - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) made PE compulsory for all sixth-form students. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Times Education Commission Report - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) The final point in that 12-point plan is a 15-year strategy for education. - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) For the person who does not have the tiger parent who expects them to pass exams, maybe we can get teachers - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (CB - Life peer) The long-running campaign for an international baccalaureate-style curriculum for 16 to 18 year-olds - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) final recommendation of the commission’s 12-point plan for education is that there should be:“A 15-year - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) I welcome the report’s proposals for a slimmed-down set of exams in five core subjects. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
BTEC Qualifications - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) This Government have had an obsession with exams over the course of the last 12 years, as though they - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) —[Official Report, House of Lords, 12 October 2021; Vol. 814, c. 1789.]The hon. - Speech Link
3: Andrea Jenkyns (CON - Morley and Outwood) qualifications that overlap with T-levels for 16 to 19-year-olds, which will reduce the complexities - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None national exams for “educated otherwise” students. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) the exams, home schoolers then have to pay for them. - Speech Link
3: None This will include more detailed examples, which could include support for exams. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) increasing in secondary school years.The prevalence of myopia—short-sightedness—among 10 to 16 year-olds - Speech Link
5: None On 19 May this year, it was reported that Ofsted had issued an updated version of its December 2021 inspection - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) For the reasons I set out when discussing Amendment 42, this amendment will modify the Act to reduce - Speech Link
2: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) The Academies Act has been in place for some 10 or 12 years; why are officials just working this out - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) a standardised pupil comes in who their whole curriculum and way of operating fits, so that they have - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) think about the content, be able to evaluate the thinking behind students’ own methods and identify - Speech Link
5: None they go to—they will probably be consultants—who will end up being paid to sit on boards as interim - Speech Link