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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is the Minister aware of the crisis in child mental healthcare in Cumbria? Does he agree that greater investment to equip teachers to help with preventive measures in the classroom is essential if we are to make children’s lives better in the longer term and not store up huge problems …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Dec 2016
National Funding Formula: Schools/High Needs

"Does the Secretary of State recognise and understand the grave concerns of schools in my constituency and across Cumbria with above-average numbers of children with high needs that the change to the funding formula for teaching assistants, which will require schools to fund the first 10 hours rather than the …..."
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Written Question
National Curriculum Tests
Monday 11th July 2016

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to publish additional sample test material ahead of the 2017 SATs.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Standards and Testing Agency will not be producing any additional sample tests prior to the 2017 tests. We produced sample tests prior to the 2016 National Curriculum tests to provide exemplification of the new tests. As there will be no further changes to the tests in 2017, schools can now refer to the 2015 sample tests and the 2016 live tests for exemplification of the tests in 2017 and any future tests.

Written Question
National Curriculum Tests
Monday 11th July 2016

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to modify the level of difficulty in the SATs tests for 2017.

Answered by Nick Gibb

There are no plans to modify the difficulty of the National Curriculum tests for 2017. The tests are constructed to meet the test specification outlined in the test frameworks.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jan 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is the Secretary of State as alarmed as I am that Poppi Worthington was not previously known to social services despite the fact that her mother had previously had a child taken into care, and her father had been investigated on two separate occasions due to child sexual abuse?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2015
Trade Union Bill

"My hon. Friend has already punched holes in the figure of £6 million and the calculations that underpin it. Does he agree that if the Government are to have any credibility, they should also publish an estimate of the extra costs that the taxpayer will be landed with as a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Oct 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6. Further to the questions asked earlier, the Minister will be aware of the merger discussions announced between Barrow sixth-form college and Furness college today, and the fact that it is prompted by the dire situation the sixth-form college finds itself in. Will he agree to meet me and education …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Sep 2015
Trade Union Bill

"If the Secretary of State is so concerned about being even-handed in how he modernises strike law, why has he ruled out modernising how trade unions communicate and how strike ballots are sent out? Why is he focusing only on more punitive measures?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jul 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is good that the Government are putting forward such measures, but has the Minister seen the report out today suggesting that the No. 1 concern of headteachers is mental health? Has he seen how emergency psychiatric admissions have doubled in only four years? Does he accept that there is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Let me—grudgingly, but sincerely—welcome the Minister back to his place.

For all that the Government have said about apprenticeships, the barriers that prevent far too many companies, especially smaller ones, from taking on apprentices remain too high. What more will the Government do for those small businesses? In particular, how …..."
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