Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2015
Deaf Students (Educational Achievement)
"I am very pleased to have been given an opportunity to raise an issue that is of importance not only to my constituents, but to many other families and young people across the country. Deafness is a disability and although that does not mean that children who are deaf are …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2015
Deaf Students (Educational Achievement)
"The hon. Gentleman has always brought interesting examples and ideas to my previous debates on health-related issues. I am sure the Minister has listened to him. We should seek to learn from any example of good practice, whether it be in the public or the private sector, but whether we …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"Will the Minister, for the benefit of the House, enlighten us as to which independent statistics he prayed in aid in his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern)? My hon. Friend was using statistics from November this year produced by the Office for National …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 27th October 2014
Asked by:
Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the quality of specialist education support services for children in (a) England and (b) Plymouth with low incidence needs.
Answered by Edward Timpson
It is for local authorities to determine the support they arrange, including any specialist education services for children and young people with low incidence needs. The importance of making appropriate provision for children with low incidence needs and local authorities including information about specialist support in their local offer is set out in the new 0-25 special educational needs and disability code of practice. Under Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014, local authorities have a duty to keep under review the educational provision, training provision and social care provision made in their area for children and young people who have special educational needs.
Written Question
Friday 24th October 2014
Asked by:
Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many deaf pupils achieved five A* to C grades in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Plymouth in 2013.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The number and proportion of pupils at the end of key stage 4 with a hearing impairment who achieved 5 or more GCSE A* to C grades (or equivalent) in a) England, b) the South West and c) Plymouth in 2013 can be found in the table below.
| | Pupils with a hearing impairment |
Number of eligible pupils1 | Number of pupils achieving 5 or more
A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent) | Percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more
A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent) |
England | 1390 | 1024 | 73.7 |
South West | 125 | 82 | 65.6 |
Plymouth | 10 | x | x |
Source: National pupil database
- Figures are based on pupils at the end of key stage 4 and do not include those pupils recently arrived from overseas.
x = Figures not shown due to 1 or 2 pupils not achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSE grades (or equivalent). This suppression is to protect pupil confidentiality and consistent with the Department for Education’s statistical policy[1].
[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-official-statistics-published-by-the-department-for-education
Written Question
Thursday 19th June 2014
Asked by:
Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Two parliamentary questions tabled to the Department for Education, PQs 198493 (tabled on 13/5/2014) and 198434 (tabled on 12/5/2014), did not receive substantive answers by the time of prorogation. The questions had reply on dates during prorogation, and therefore could not be answered due to the House's rules regarding notice periods.
As a courtesy, both Members have been sent copies of the answers that they would have received had the Department been permitted to give the answers in the usual way.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"Young people across Plymouth are telling me that they feel as though they are little more than walking pots of money when it comes to careers advice and that schools are almost harassing them at times to keep them in school. That obviously militates against some of them going to …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his replies to these questions, but how does he propose to deal with the real dearth of engineering apprenticeships—female ones—when frankly there will not be enough role models to go around? We need good careers advice in classrooms, but it needs to be targeted …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2013
Co-operatives in Education
"I apologise for missing part of the proceedings. Lipson community college in Plymouth is a co-operative academy. It was set up in 2009 and is outstanding. It encourages pupils to follow up and become co-operators. In fact, they are very involved in the young co-operative movement, and the Ruptors street …..."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2013
Co-operatives in Education
"The Plymouth Learning Trust is made up of 16 schools that have come together in a not-for-profit company. They are doing a lot of joint working, which is very effective, so pure profit does not always have to be the driver...."Alison Seabeck - View Speech
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