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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 May 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"On Friday, the University of Chester Academies Trust wrote to its staff at two schools in my constituency, University Academy Kidsgrove and University Primary Academy, to announce savage cuts. Will the Minister meet me and other colleagues with UCAT schools in their constituencies immediately to talk about an urgent solution?..."
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 19 Jan 2018
School Holidays (Meals and Activities) Bill

"Will the Government also use research from pilots that the voluntary sector led last year, when 10,500 meals were served in my constituency?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"We all support and recognise the need for additional funding for high needs grants and special needs. In Stoke-on-Trent, we have received £4 million under the review of the funding formula, but Stoke-on-Trent City Council has written to the Secretary of State asking for £3 million of that to be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Budget Resolutions

"Before I start, may I say how proud and delighted I am to be joined on these green Benches by my new hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell) who made a wonderful maiden speech? I am now grateful for every door I knocked on in the rain. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Budget Resolutions

"I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. As the niece of a black cab driver, I should really declare an interest.

It seems that, as far as the Chancellor is concerned, the “strivers” that his party claims to stand up for are not striving quite hard enough. It …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
National Living Wage

"Does my hon. Friend agree that it is not just a matter of current income? People will also lose their deferred income and salary, which is their pension, so there will be a longer-term, knock-on effect when they retire...."
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Written Question
Pupil Premium: Summer Schools
Thursday 4th February 2016

Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the available funding for the Pupil Premium Summer School Programme was spent in 2015; and how much was spent on food provision for children outside term time.

Answered by Sam Gyimah

From 2015-16, the total expenditure by the Department on the summer schools programme was £38m. The Department does not collect data on the number of schools that provided meals for pupils as part of their summer school, nor on the amount of summer school funding spent on food provision.

Written Question
Pupil Premium: Summer Schools
Thursday 4th February 2016

Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding was available for the Pupil Premium Summer School Programme in 2015.

Answered by Sam Gyimah

The Department made up to £46m of funding from the pupil premium available to support schools in delivering summer schools in 2015. The actual amount paid to the 2,171 secondary schools that chose to take part in the 2015 programme, which involved over 92,000 pupils, was £38m.

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

"I have the privilege of representing the best people in the country, but they have been failed by the Government. My constituents awoke today to learn that the people of Stoke-on-Trent are less likely than people in any other city to leave school with the formal qualifications that they need. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2015
Trade Union Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the average time lost to strike action last year was less than a third of a second per member of the workforce?..."
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